By KENNETH CHANG : The universe is 13.73 billion years old, give or take 120 million years, astronomers said last week. That age, based on precision measurements of the oldest light in the universe, agrees with results announced in 2006. Two additional years of data from a NASA satellite known as […]
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Smartening Up : By BENEDICT CAREY - SO far no one is demanding that asterisks be attached to Nobels, Pulitzers or Lasker awards. Government agents have not been raiding anthropology departments, riffling book bags, testing professors’ urine. And if there are illicit trainers on campuses, shady tutors with wraparound sunglasses and ties to basement […]
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By CELIA W. DUGGER : KWANGWANASE, South Africa — Colin Pfaff, a slight doctor imbued with Christian zeal, had reached a moral crossroads.Dr. Pfaff knew that giving H.I.V.-positive women and their newborns two anti-AIDS drugs instead of one would reduce the odds that mothers would pass the virus to their […]
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By LAURA M. HOLSON : AS president of the Walt Disney Company’s children’s book and magazine publishing unit, Russell Hampton knows a thing or two about teenagers. Or he thought as much until he was driving his 14-year-old daughter, Katie, and two friends to a play last year in Los Angeles.
“Katie […]
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By CHRISTOPHER CLAREY : VALENCIA, Spain — The second day and night of the world indoor track and field championships were more about what did not happen than what did. Yelena Isinbayeva of Russia did not come close to breaking her latest world record in the women’s pole vault Saturday, trying and […]
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The Food Chain : By DAVID STREITFELD LAWTON, N.D. — Whatever Dennis Miller decides to plant this year on his 2,760-acre farm, the world needs. Wheat prices have doubled in the last six months. Corn is on a tear. Barley, sunflower seeds, canola and soybeans are all up sharply. “For once, […]
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