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...military into a nimbler high-tech force that can battle stateless threats like al-Qaeda. South Carolina is touting Shaw Air Force Base as the perfect staging area for F-16s to guard the East Coast from a terrorist air attack. Massachusetts insists that Hanscom Air Force Base in Bedford and the Army's research center in Natick are ideal for studying the high-tech hardware Rumsfeld covets, since they're close to science centers like M.I.T. The state also hopes that one of its hired guns, former Illinois Senator Alan Dixon, will give it an edge because of another...
...idea of cappuccino." MARTHA STEWART, telling reporters outside her house in Bedford, New York, what she had most missed in prison, adding that she and her fellow inmates shared a daily joke with guards about having the drink...
Evolutionary biologist Ernst Mayr, often called the “Darwin of the 20th century,” died last Thursday at his retirement community in Bedford, Mass...
DIED. ERNST MAYR, 100, leading evolutionary biologist of the 20th century; in Bedford, Mass. Born in Germany, he became an avid bird watcher and turned away from a planned medical career to natural history. In the 1930s and '40s, he integrated the newly emerging field of genetics with Darwin's insights on evolution, showing how species arise when groups of similar organisms become separated--often by geography--and then accumulate genetic differences that no longer allow them to interbreed...
...essence, Home Edition is like the reality-TV version of It's a Wonderful Life, in which Bedford Falls pitches in to rescue solid citizen George Bailey. Executive producer Tom Forman says the show's makers assess applications on "need and, to the extent we can judge it, merit. We look for people who have been nominated by their neighbors, people whose communities have told us are really special." The show also hews to the old formula of something for Mom, Dad and the kids: five-hankie stories, plus home-improvement tips, plus guys ripping off roofs with tractors...