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...neuroscience at the University of Utah, was born and raised in the Philippines, where he attended college. After completing doctoral work at the California Institute of Technology and postdoctoral work at Stanford University, Olivera began doing research on the deadly cone snails that live in the Southeast Asian island. His research, which now includes many more types of cone snails, has led to a better understanding of the nervous system and the development of new commercial drugs, such as potent painkillers that are administered to patients who do not respond to morphine. Director of the Foundation Dr. S. Allen Counter...
...tallied a 4-5 record in the non-conference matchups. Harvard is next scheduled to take the field in Macon, Ga., where the Crimson will compete in the Mercer Nissan Classic on the first weekend of Harvard’s spring break. The Crimson will also travel to Rhode Island and Boston University before kicking off its Ivy League slate against Penn and Columbia on March 31 and April 1, respectively. —KARAN LODHA
James Brown is laid to rest--for now. Lawsuits kept his remains in limbo until March 10, when they were placed in a crypt on Beech Island, S.C. But he is awaiting, heirs say, a more Graceland-like entombment that combines gravesite and perhaps museum somewhere else in South Carolina. Star watcher TMZ.COM offers this eulogy: "Even in death, Brown's still the Hardest Working Man in Show Business!" score...
Fort Campbell is a long way from the island in the Thar Thar Canal, north of Baghdad. But a court-martial at the U.S. military base, which straddles Kentucky and Tennessee, has begun to examine in detail what happened in that Iraqi locale in May 2006, with polarizing consequences for the way Americans perceive the way the war is being waged...
...Mackey said that when a report of the three detainees was radioed in to the base, an irate officer supposedly asked why the men had not been killed. Soldiers have also testified that before the raid, commanders had instructed them to leave no military-age men alive on the island...