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DIED. RICHARD SMALLEY, 62, nanotechnology pioneer who shared a Nobel Prize with fellow chemists Robert Curl and Sir Harold Kroto for discovering a highly stable, soccer-ball-shaped carbon molecule, a cylindrical version of which--100,000 times thinner than a human hair--can conduct electricity; of cancer; in Houston. The playful professor--among the honors listed on his curriculum vitae is Rice University Homecoming Queen--dubbed the molecule buckminsterfullerene because it resembled the geodesic domes of architect Buckminster Fuller...
...Australia's last living World War II VC winner takes a little longer to get around these days, and his eyes aren't good. But his white hair still has the dashing curl of the bold young soldier, and his humor is as dry as the bush in summer. "I couldn't call for morning tea or go to sleep," he says of his decision to stand up that day. After the shooting finished, his company met up with another section nearby. "Someone, I think it was Snowy, said to me, 'Did you do that?' and I said yeah...
...that summer vacations are upon us, it's time to get out of the house (or the office). Here are the latest gadgets and gear for those who like to rough it and some good books for those who just want to curl up and read about the boys of summer. --By Sean Gregory...
Misti Cordova, 20, decided to go to First View after seeing a flyer in a Babies "R" Us. The video-store clerk soon found herself sitting in a tidy office park and cooing as she watched her unborn baby curl his upper lip: "Looks like he's doing an Elvis pose...
Corl eked out a 3-2 victory over Tom Curl to put Harvard back on the board in the second-to-last match, continuing to prove that even though Ogunwole had the night off, the Crimson’s opponent would not have it easy in the heavyweight bracket...