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Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who has died aged 89, was a prolific novelist and memoirist, whose life's work, in the best traditions of Russian literature, transcended the realm of pure letters. He was a moral and spiritual leader, whose books were noted ...
2008-08-04 11:14:00
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It was always Aleksander Solzhenitsyn's ambition to be a writer. He read War and Peace in its entirety when he was only 10. But as a young man he couldn't get his work published, and he wound up studying mathematics in college.
2008-08-04 11:57:00
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I'm interested in sundials because of their mathematical relation to the position of the sun at any time, said Snyder, who has made a number of portable, wooden sundials of his own for family members. It's a thing of beauty to design an instrument on ...
2008-08-04 12:40:00
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Aug. 4 (Bloomberg) -- BNP Paribas SA , which helped trigger a global credit seizure a year ago this week, has emerged from the crisis as France's healthiest bank. France's largest bank by market value halted withdrawals last Aug. 9 from three funds ...
2008-08-04 10:03:00
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MOSCOW : Tributes poured in Monday after the death of Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Nobel Prize-winning author whose books exposed the savagery of Soviet slave labor camps and who was an austere but shining symbol of morality and courage for millions ...
2008-08-04 09:56:00
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MOSCOW Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Nobel Prize-winning Russian author whose books chronicled the horrors of dictator Josef Stalin's slave labor camps, has died of heart failure, his son said Monday. He was 89. Stepan Solzhenitsyn told The Associated ...
2008-08-04 09:41:00
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Nobel laureate Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the reclusive icon of the Russian intelligentsia and chronicler of communist repression, died Sunday. He was 89. His son, Stephan Solzhenitsyn, told the Associated Press that his father died of heart failure in ...
2008-08-04 02:06:00
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A third of 11-year-olds in England are getting higher scores in English, mathematics and science national curriculum tests than teachers believe they deserve. The findings from the think-tank Civitas will undermine further the legitimacy of the ...
2008-08-04 02:06:00
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MOSCOW Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Vladimir Putin could have seemed like natural enemies - a writer plagued by the secret police and a president who started his career with the KGB. But by the time of the Nobel Prize-winning Solzhenitsyn's death at ...
2008-08-04 12:55:00
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(Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20070917/NEM099LOGO ) -- Clifford McBroom has been named senior vice president, S&T Financial Services. In his new role, McBroom will provide personal financial planning and consulting services to both ...
2008-08-04 01:52:00
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Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Vladimir Putin could have seemed like natural enemies — a writer plagued by the secret police and a president who started his career with the KGB.
2008-08-04 12:57:50
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A third of 11-year-olds in England are getting higher scores in English, mathematics and science national curriculum tests than teachers believe they deserve.
2008-08-04 02:23:21
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While the number of women working in science, information technology, engineering and mathematics is disproportionate to the number of men in those fields, programs such as the CyberGirlz camp at UW-Whitewater are getting young girls interested.
2008-08-04 06:27:58
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Associated Press - August 4, 2008 8:23 AM ET BIG SPRINGS, Neb. (AP) - The simple mathematics of money could be working against volunteer fire departments and creating a public safety hazard in...
2008-08-04 05:46:15
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BIG SPRINGS, Neb. (AP) - The simple mathematics of money could be working against volunteer fire departments and creating a public safety hazard in the process.
2008-08-04 06:00:18
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