2 Americans, 1 Israeli win Nobel chemistry prize
STOCKHOLM (AP) Two Americans and an Israeli scientist won the 2009 Nobel Prize in chemistry today for atom-by-atom mapping of the protein-making factories within cells a feat that has spurred the development of antibiotics. The Royal Swedish Acad...
 6.7K - Oct. 7, 2009; scored 608.0 New book outlines British spy agency's successes, failures
LONDON - Britain s domestic spy service thinks the threat from Islamist terrorism has stopped growing but remains severe, with terrorists eager to acquire weapons of mass destruction, according to the first authorized history of the agency. The Defe...
4.8K - Oct. 5, 2009; scored 385.0 What black parents tell their kids
After the Obama-Gates-Crowley beer summit at the White House ended, Ronald Walter, a black longtime professor of politics at the University of Maryland, said: Black parents are using this as a case in point of what they have been saying all along ...
3.3K - Aug. 21, 2009; scored 385.0 Idaho man injured in Ore. boat explosion
ST HELENS (AP) A 25-year-old Idaho man has been burned in the explosion of a fishing boat docked at a marina near St. Helens. Columbia County Sheriff Jeff Dickerson said Joshua Gifford of Cambridge, Idaho, was airlifted Tuesday to a Portland hospi...
0.9K - Aug. 19, 2009; scored 385.0 Protect nonviolent speech
The media frenzy as President Obama called it over Sgt. James Crowley s arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. needs to become more than a teachable moment, in the president s phrase. But not only about interactions among blacks an...
3.2K - Aug. 12, 2009; scored 608.0 Sgt. Crowley, a cop in full
Professor Louis Henry Gates has retreated from his threat to sue Sgt. James Crowley. Almost a week later, President Obama retreated from his charge that the Cambridge cops acted stupidly. As Crowley has not budged an inch his arrest of Gates was c...
3.8K - Aug. 4, 2009; scored 1000.0 Harvard prof, cop to talk again Obama beer
WASHINGTON (AP) The black scholar and the white police sergeant who arrested him agreed to disagree and promised to talk again, a gracious conclusion to the first round of an eye-opening dialogue on race that allows President Barack Obama to get ba...
1.7K - Jul. 31, 2009; scored 608.0 Friends defend officer who arrested scholar
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. Supporters say the white policeman who arrested renowned black scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. in his home is a principled police officer and family man who is being unfairly described as racist. Friends and fellow officers black a...
4.4K - Jul. 24, 2009; scored 893.0 British scientists claim to create human sperm
LONDON (AP) British scientists claimed today to have created human sperm from stem cells but other experts questioned their data. Researchers at Newcastle University and the NorthEast England Stem Cell Institute say they used a new technique to der...
2.2K - Jul. 8, 2009; scored 385.0 'Natural' meds legal, but unregulated
Homeopathy sprang from the inventive some would say fanciful mind of German physician and chemist Samuel Hahnemann in the late 1700s. Experimenting on himself, he became convinced that if an ingredient causes a symptom in a healthy person, it wil...
9.1K - Jun. 22, 2009; scored 385.0 Dreams from my mother
President Obama clearly had two models in mind when he chose Sonia Sotomayor as his first Supreme Court nominee: himself and his wife, Michelle. The Obamas are the first family of color to live in the White House; Sotomayor would be the first woman o...
4.1K - May. 28, 2009; scored 385.0 Low-carb? Low-fat? Study finds calories count more
LOS ANGELES Low-fat, low-carb or high-protein? The kind of diet doesn t matter, scientists say. All that really counts is cutting calories and sticking with it, according to a federal study that followed people for two years. However, participants ...
5.1K - Feb. 26, 2009; scored 385.0 NASCAR Driver Capsules
No. 00 Toyota, Michael Waltrip Racing DRIVER: David Reutimann BORN: March 2, 1970 HOMETOWN: Zephyrhills, Fla. CREW CHIEF: Rodney Childers NOTES: Drove in No. 00 for the first five races of 2008 before replacing retired Dale Jarrett in the team s No. ...
26.7K - Feb. 7, 2009; scored 385.0 Boston-area home of one-time suspect in 1982 Tylenol poisoning deaths is searched
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) Federal agents have searched the home of a one-time leading suspect as part of their second look into the murders of seven people who swallowed tainted Tylenol capsules in 1982. FBI agents from Boston and Chicago were seen We...
1.3K - Feb. 5, 2009; scored 385.0 Renowned designer Dye among inductees to Golf Hall of Fame
ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. Pete Dye, who designed more than 120 courses with risk-and-reward options that brought pleasure to some and frustration to most, was among six people inducted Monday night into the World Golf Hall of Fame. The 2008 class feature...
5.5K - Nov. 11, 2008; scored 385.0 | 
