RADIATION therapy based on technology behind the Large Hadron Collider "Big Bang" experiment can halve the chances of cancer patients developing a secondary tumour, scientists said. The treatment delivers a beam of protons - the positively charged central cores of atoms - at a cancer site instead of...
MORPHOSES Sadler's Wells, London *** Christopher Wheeldon's Morphoses is still reaching for an identity. Launched last year, with much fanfare about innovation in ballet, this transatlantic company lacked variety. Morphoses still comes across as a grander version of the stripped-down troupes dancers arrange in their summer...
WASHINGTON -- A Republican rebellion stalled government efforts Thursday to avoid economic meltdown, a chaotic turnaround that disrupted the choreography of an extraordinary White House meeting meant to show joint resolve from the president, the political parties and the presidential candidates. Instead, the summit broke up so bitterly that Treasury...
SACRAMENTO, Calif. AP -- Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed the most overdue state budget in California history Tuesday, skipping the usual fanfare because he said the Legislature's efforts on the $144.5 billion spending plan were nothing to celebrate. Nearly a quarter of the way through its fiscal year,...
Advocates for children are hailing a bill, passed by Congress with little fanfare, that will help tens of thousands of children in foster care find permanent homes or improve their job prospects. The bill will provide $3 billion over 10 years to increase adoption or guardianship of the...
Darnell Abraham, Baritone, To Sing Copland's Old American Songs at November 8, 2008 Concert 'This exciting concert combines Copland's timeless American music with Dvorak's masterful accomplishment in defining the American classical sound.' - Walt Straiton, CSO Artistic Director CORONA, Calif., Sept. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- The...
WHAT FINALLY SENT her over the top was the poster. There was Sarah Palin as Rosie the Riveter, flexing her biceps under the motto: "We Can Do It!" The image was the same on the T-shirt my friend had left over from the primaries. But with a crucial difference. ...
What finally sent her over the top was the poster. There was Sarah Palin as Rosie the Riveter, flexing her biceps under the motto: "We Can Do It!" The image was the same on the T-shirt my friend had left over from the primaries. But with a crucial difference. ...
GENEVA AFP — The world's largest atom-smasher has been shut down for two months following a helium leak, just ten days after it was switched on amid great fanfare to probe the secrets of the universe. "There has been an incident in a test. One section of the...
WASHINGTON AFP — US President George W. Bush will meet Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas in the White House on September 25, US officials said Friday. But "looks forward to discussing with president Abbas the progress made toward building Palestinian institutions and toward realizing the vision of two states,...
BOSTON -- What finally sent her over the top was the poster. There was Sarah Palin as Rosie the Riveter, flexing her biceps under the motto: "We Can Do It!" The image was the same on the T-shirt my friend had left over from the primaries. But with a crucial...
GENEVA AFP — The world's largest particle collider was running again Friday after an electrical fault forced it to stop just days after being launched to global fanfare, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research CERN said. The problem affected a cooling system for high-powered magnets designed to steer...
Sony Pictures Television Project Created by EmmyR-Winning John Masius (St. Elsewhere); Masius, Jada Pinkett Smith and Jamie Tarses My Boys Executive-Producing ATLANTA, Sept. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Jada Pinkett Smith (The Women, The Matrix Trilogy) has signed on to play the lead in TNT's riveting drama pilot TIME...
Poems 1980-2008, by Jan Owen; John Leonard Press, 2008, $29.95. JAN OWEN'S WORK deserves to be better known outside the small world of poetry enthusiasts. Her new collection, Poems 1980-2008, contains selected poems from five previous books, and more than forty poems published for the first time under...
On Aug. 17, 2004, a New York Times front-page story featured the first national data on publicly funded, privately run charter schools. An analysis of Department of Education statistics by the American Federation of Teachers found that charter school students often do worse than similar students in regular public schools....
PROM 40: BBC SO & CHORUS/ BOULEZ Royal Albert Hall LONDON **** There was some surprise when it was learnt that Pierre Boulez, a conductor of immaculate precision, had taken to performing that sometimes rough diamond Leos Janacek. But with his recent readings of Janacek's last...
The city, Port of San Diego and developers of Pier 32 Marina celebrated a ribbon-cutting ceremony Aug. 16. It is the first marina developed in the city and first new marina developed on San Diego Bay in 17 years. The marina, on port land, was developed by John...
Various artists Rough Guide to the Music of Romanian Gypsies WORLD MUSIC NETWORK This compilation by Dan Rosenberg is a very neat job. Romania has the largest Gypsy population in Europe, and that ethnic strain has long pervaded its culture: as this CD confirms, it's spread...
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