By PETER WHITE
BELLS BEND, Tenn. — Two unexpected guests showed up over the winter at George West’s farm here, rare whooping cranes that landed in Mr. West’s rich, boggy turnip field five miles from Nashville and were spotted by local birders during the annual Audubon count.
“They couldn’t believe their eyes,” said the president of […]
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By JOHN SCHWARTZ
NASA managers cleared the shuttle Endeavour for liftoff on March 11 to begin a 16-day mission to the International Space Station. The mission, which involves bringing part of a new Japanese science module to the station and five space walks, will be launched at 2:28 a.m. “The teams are ready to go launch,” […]
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By STEVE FRIESS
LAS VEGAS — A man who stayed in a Las Vegas hotel room where ricin was found on Thursday has been hospitalized in critical condition since Feb. 14 with symptoms consistent with exposure to the deadly poison, the police said Friday.
The man’s identity, age and hometown were being withheld as investigators […]
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By STEPHANIE SAUL
Faced with the looming loss of patent protection for its top-selling drug, the antidepressant Effexor XR, Wyeth received federal approval on Friday for a successor drug, Pristiq, which the company hopes will also become a blockbuster.
With the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of Pristiq, Wyeth said the company planned […]
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Art Review | Gustave Courbet By ROBERTA SMITH
At the moment the Metropolitan Museum of Art, always a paradise of painting, is more edenic than ever. In less than four weeks it has opened three large exhibitions, each devoted to a master of sublime strangeness. First Jasper Johns, then Nicolas Poussin and now Gustave Courbet.
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Music Review | ‘Peter Grimes’ By ANTHONY TOMMASINI
The Metropolitan Opera’s landmark 1967 production of Britten’s “Peter Grimes,” directed by Tyrone Guthrie and mounted for the colossal tenor Jon Vickers, was bound to be a tough act to follow. But the time had come for a new roster of artists to take a fresh look […]
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