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Stony Brook is a charming place that owes its colonial ambience less to the American Revolution than to the Ward Melville revolution.
Photo: View of Stony Brook's Main Street in about 1900, showing the post office building on the two-acre village green. (Three Village Historical Society Photo)
Photo: View of Stony Brook's Main Street in about 1900, showing the post office building on the two-acre village green. (Three Village Historical Society Photo)
Stony Brook is a charming place that owes its colonial ambience less to the American Revolution than to the Ward Melville revolution.
Photo: View of Stony Brook's Main Street in about 1900, showing the post office building on the two-acre village green. (Three Village Historical Society Photo)
Photo: View of Stony Brook's Main Street in about 1900, showing the post office building on the two-acre village green. (Three Village Historical Society Photo)
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Charles Rosen dies at 85; pianist wrote 'The Classical Style'
Charles Rosen, the renowned pianist and prolific writer whose award-winning book "The Classical Style" has been read by music students around the world, has died. He was 85. The New York-born musician had been suffering from cancer and died Sunday...
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Louis Simpson dies at 89; Pulitzer-winning poet
"A poet," Louis Simpson once wrote, "should wish for enough unhappiness to keep him writing." Simpson may not have wished for trouble, but he kept writing for 60 years — spare, powerful poems about war, infidelity, suburban alienation and other...
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John Marburger III dies at 70; science advisor to President George W. Bush
Physicist John H. Marburger III, who served as President George W. Bush's science advisor at a time when most researchers considered science to be under attack by the government, died July 28 at his home in Port Jefferson, N.Y. He was 70 and had non-...Tags: University of Southern California, Hodgkins Disease, Princeton University, Colleges and Universities, Port Jefferson
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Dear, I love you with all my brain
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterFor centuries, love has been probed -- and of course celebrated -- mostly by poets, artists and balladeers. But now its mysteries are yielding to the tools of science, including modern brain-scanning machines. At State University of New York at Stony...Tags: Medical Research, Drugs and Medicines, Colleges and Universities, Brain, Albert Einstein
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Laptop overheating may affect male fertility, even with a pad
L.A. Times Tech BlogMen might want to start leaving laptop action to the ladies. Or at least work while the computers are on a desk, according to recent research about âscrotal hyperthermia.â Itâs not the kind of âhot and heavyâ most dudes prefer....... -
Industrial chemical OSR#1 used as autism treatment
An industrial chemical developed to help separate heavy metals from polluted soil and mining drainage is being sold as a dietary supplement by a luminary in the world of alternative autism treatments.
The supplement, called OSR#1, is described on the...Tags: Medical Research, Crime, Law and Justice, Emergency Incidents, Johns Hopkins University, Dietary Supplements
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'Ancient civilization . . . broken to pieces'
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterHe works as a blacksmith in one of Baghdad's swarming Shiite slums. But at least once a month, Abu Saif tucks a pistol into his belt, hops into a minibus taxi and speeds south. His goal: to unearth ancient treasures from thousands of archaeological sites...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Homes, State University of New York, Baghdad (Iraq), Gang Activity
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This is your brain on love
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterHER front brain is telling her he's trouble. Look at the facts, it says. He's never made a commitment, he drinks too much, he can't hold down a job. But her middle brain won't listen. Man, it swoons, he looks great in those jeans, his black hair curls...Tags: Medical Research, Biology, Brain, Albert Einstein, Trips and Vacations
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Paul Lauterbur, 77; 'the father of MRI'
Times Staff WriterPhysicist Paul C. Lauterbur, who received a 2003 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for giving physicians the ability to look inside the human body without using harmful radiation, died Tuesday at his home in Urbana, Ill. He was 77 and had been...Tags: Nottingham, Multiple Sclerosis, Johns Hopkins University, State University of New York, National Institutes of Health
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In Different Worlds, Afghan Clan Leads
Times Staff WriterOne brother will be installed Saturday as the leader of a newly liberated Afghanistan. The other will be planning his newest restaurant in America. Both are members of the Popalzoi, a tribe whose Durrani ancestors--part of the larger Pushtun clan--...Tags: Dining and Drinking, Family, Boston, Taliban, State University of New York
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The National Institutes of Health: Public Servant or Private Marketer?
Times Staff WriterFor 15 million Americans, it is a daily ritual: gulping down a pill to reduce cholesterol. They do it because their doctors tell them to. Their doctors, in turn, rely on recommendations from the National Institutes of Health and its scientists, such as...Tags: National Institutes of Health, Television, Renal Failure, Science and Technology, Pharmaceuticals
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BNL, Stony Brook eye military battery work
NewsdayBrookhaven National Laboratory and Stony Brook University are seeking roughly $20 million in federal funding to help the military develop batteries that would power everything from unmanned vehicles to tactical gear soldiers carry into battle. The...Tags: Stony Brook University, Science and Technology, Storage, U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services, Long Island
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