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It was a passion which culminated in a meeting and a cordial chat with royalty. Not only his passion but also his fascination with orchids led to horticulturist L.S. Wanigatunga meeting none other than the Queen of England recently. "The Queen ...
2009-07-25 03:03:00
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Sri Lankan team after the award ceremony. The fact that Sri Lanka nurtured some of the best minds in the world is no secret considering the number of scientists we bestowed on the scientific community. From the 20th International Biology Olympiad ...
2009-07-25 02:27:00
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Rocket science is a term often used for the astronautics branch of aerospace engineering. It is the science and technology of space flight. Rocket scientists are considered geniuses because of the varied and complex engineering knowledge required ...
2009-07-25 03:03:00
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The cause was complications of Parkinson’s disease, his son-in-law Dick Huyer said. Mr. Davenport, a professor emeritus at the University of Western Ontario , used mathematics and experiments with wind tunnels to estimate how far buildings can lean ...
2009-07-25 06:09:00
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Mumbai: I was never good at mathematics. As a child, my mother, who was a whiz with numbers, tried her hardest to make me quicker at calculations, but I couldn't do it. Even now, I reach for my cellphone calculator for the smallest bit of counting ...
2009-07-25 05:12:00
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The former Executive Director of the YWCA of Wilmington (now YWCA Lower Cape Fear), Hunt was a plane spotter during World War II, openly supported racial and women’s equality, served as the first woman elected to St. Paul’s Episcopal Church’s ...
2009-07-25 05:48:00
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Bill L. Hansen, 54, of Chester, a former Navy chief petty officer, died July 21 at home. He was born in Baltimore, and raised in Finksburg, Md. He was a resident of Chester six years. Mr. Hansen graduated from Carroll County High School. A former ...
2009-07-25 04:19:00
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This little book Trading Options at Expiration: Strategies and Models for Winning the Endgame , by Jeff Augen (FT Press, 2009) is tightly packed into 141 pages of highly technical analysis and explanation. It is Mr. Augen’s third book on options ...
2009-07-25 07:32:00
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A third year high school student from Saint Jude Catholic School in Manila made history in the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) in Bremen, Germany, by becoming the first female Filipino contestant to win a medal in the contest. Carmela ...
2009-07-25 08:08:00
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Nora Ford looks good on a horse. In a picture of her fording a stream, she looks comfortable and content. Her face has a touch of mirth. Special Nora Ford and her husband, Ed, had retired to Little Hendricks Peak in North Georgia about six years ago ...
2009-07-25 11:00:00
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During a ceremony July 31, senior NASA officials will present the National Federation of the Blind with two Louis Braille Bicentennial Silver Dollars that flew on space shuttle Atlantis's mission to the Hubble Space Telescope in May 2009. Marc Maurer ...
2009-07-25 10:38:00
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Abigail Lyn Harper , daughter of Beverly and Scott Harper, is one of 13 seniors presented with 21st Century Leaders awards during the 139th Commencement of the UMass/Amherst on May 23. Xinqing Zhang , was one of 31 students to graduate from Boston ...
2009-07-25 10:24:00
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Eastland Junior High School eighth-grader Tyra Williams had some trouble with mathematics during the regular school year. Tyra said she didn’t understand how to do certain problems and cited a variety of reasons, including that her teacher couldn ...
2009-07-25 08:44:00
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It's not uncommon to see middle-school kids chase around soccer balls or whiffle balls in the summertime — but it doesn't usually happen underwater with a remote control submarine. Forty students in two groups of 20 from Gloucester's O'Maley Middle ...
2009-07-25 12:58:00
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Hancock -- Andrew Dietz, bachelor's degree, political science. Junction City -- Megan Derezinski, bachelor's degree, English and molecular biology; Anne Dorshorst, bachelor's degree, microbiology. Necedah -- Christopher Seebruck, doctoral degree ...
2009-07-25 12:58:00
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