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...elements as heavy or heavier than iron are created in supernova explosions like these. That includes Earth and all the iron found on it. “Supernovae are very important in the big picture because they create all the heavy elements. They produce the iron in your blood [and] in the core of the Earth,” Kirshner said. “We personally are made out of stardust,” he added. Supernova expert Alexei V. Filippenko, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley who played a central role in discovering that the expansion...

Author: By Daniel A. Handlin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Cosmic Shrapnel Holds History | 11/6/2007 | See Source »

...Indeed, the Mafia is still very much a family affair. Loyalty is ensured by blood rites and membership passed down through the generations of certain clans. The elder Lo Piccolo may have spelled his own doom by being in close proximity to his son for a summit on Monday. Provenzano, who evaded capture for 43 years, including a decade as Italy's most wanted man, famously lived in isolation, often in rugged conditions to better duck the authorities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Top Sicilian Mafia Boss Arrested | 11/5/2007 | See Source »

...murder occurred in the Agassiz Theatre this past weekend. “Bodas de Sangre” began as an unexciting stage drama. But the second act was filled with all the blood and aggression characteristic of a crime of passion—and by the end, nobody was complaining. “Bodas de Sangre” (“Blood Wedding”), written by the Spanish genius Federico Garcia Lorca in 1932, premiered as the first all-Spanish play to have ever been performed in a Harvard theatre. Directed by Christopher N. Hanley...

Author: By Andres A. Arguello, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: ‘Sangre’ Sears, in Spanish | 11/4/2007 | See Source »

...operating in Iraq [Oct.29]. If the architects of the Iraq invasion had used some common sense--like deploying more troops--we wouldn't need military contractors. And if the Iraqi people had backbone and stood up to terrorists, our troops could come home. It seems that American blood is cheap to them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox: Nov. 12, 2007 | 11/2/2007 | See Source »

...Harvard College TEATRO!” debuted a production “Bodas de Sangre” by Federico García Lorca in the original Spanish in the Agassiz Theatre last night. “Bodas de Sangre” (which translates to “Blood Wedding”), the first Spanish-language play presented by a Harvard student group, runs through tomorrow night.Teatro was formed in March 2007 with the goal of bringing Spanish-language theater to Harvard. “Bodas de Sangre” is the group’s first full-length production. Julie...

Author: By Edward F. Coleman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: A Spanish Tragedy at the Agassiz | 11/2/2007 | See Source »

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