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The King Center: Mrs. Coretta Scott King
Biography and other materials on Coretta Scott King from the center that she established in honor of her husband, Martin Luther King Jr. Includes highlights of her community outreach activities and a brief video clip with Martin Luther King Jr. talking about his wife. Live Coverage of Bill Gates' Keynote Address
Microsoft chairman Bill Gates is once again delivering the opening keynote at CES. Wired News is bringing you up-to-the-minute coverage and photos as the speech unfolds. Intergalactic 'Shot In The Dark'Shocks Astronomers
Astronomers have discovered a cosmic explosion that seems to have come from the middle of nowhere -- thousands of light-years from the nearest galaxy-sized collectionof stars, gas, and dust. This "shot in the dark"is surprising because the type of explosion, a long-duration gamma-ray burst, is thought to be powered by the death of a massive star. Diet And Lifestyle Changes May Help Prevent Infertility From Ovulatory
Women who followed a combination of five or more lifestyle factors, including changing specific aspects of their diets, experienced more than 80 percent less relative risk of infertility due to ovulatory disorders compared to women who engaged in none of the factors, according to an article in Obstetrics &Gynecology. [Scary] Pregnant woman says 'maternal instinct' helped her kill attack
FORT MITCHELL, Ky. - A pregnant woman who killed her attacker said a maternal instinct helped her fight off the woman who investigators believe was after her unborn child."I do believe that I fought harder because it was for my child,"Sarah Brady told ABC's "Good Morning America"in interviews aired Sunday and Monday. "It is a maternal instinct to protect your child to the very end."Katherine Smith, 22, died Thursday after luring Brady to her apartment to pick up a package supposedly delivered to the wrong address. When Smith pulled out a knife and attacked the pregnant woman, Brady fought back, striking Smith on the head with an ash tray and stabbing her three times with her own knife, police said. Brady, 26, said she didn't know Smith before the two met at Smith's apartment and can't be certain why Smith wanted to kill her."I really am not sure what was going through her mind,"Brady told ABC. "The only thing I thought was that she was going to kill me and my child and that is the only thing that ran through my mind." Recording Labels to Offer New Online Music Options
Music fans will see more online options this year as the recording industry scrambles to develop new business models and find new sources of revenue to offset losses from plunging CD sales. Researchers Use Magnetic Fields, Rather Than Drugs, To Control Cellula
For the first time, magnetism has been used to trigger cellular reactions normally induced by drugs or hormones. The discovery was made possible by getting tiny beads -- 30 nanometers in diameter -- to bind to receptor molecules on the cell surface. When exposed to a magnetic field, the beads become magnets and cluster together through magnetic attraction, pulling receptors along with them mimicking what happens when drugs or other molecules bind to cell receptors. From Noah Websterto Merriam-Webster: Celebrating 200 Year of Dictionar
In 2006 "Merriam-Webster celebrates the bicentennial anniversary of America's first dictionary, Noah Webster's A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language, published in 1806."The site features a timeline, a list of words appearing for the first time in Webster's 1806 dictionary, and brief background about Noah Webster's spelling reforms. Also includes listings of associated spelling bee events for children and adults. From Merriam-Webster. Thunderbird 2.0 Beta Arrives
Mozilla's updated e-mail client lands with new tools and a slick new UI. The software's still not ready for prime time, but it looks like the final version will be impressive. In Monkey Bites. Green heating and cooling technology turns carbon from eco-villain to
Carbon is usually typecastas a villain in terms of the environment but researchers have now devised a novel way to miniaturize a technology that will make carbon a key material in some extremely green heating products for our homes and in air conditioning equipment for our cars.
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