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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...anything bigger than an atom and smaller than a star, you're going to find carbon," he says. That includes all forms of life on the Earth, which is, as Mr. Spock used to say, carbon-based. That's because on a molecular level, carbon is a wonderful chemical joiner. Seemingly without prejudice, carbon atoms will combine with almost any other element to form the more complicated building blocks of life. "It's atomic Velcro," says Roston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Carbon Is Not a Bad Word | 7/27/2008 | See Source »

...murder claimed by Father Joe (Billy Connolly), a Catholic priest who had been convicted of sexually abusing dozens of altar boys decades before. In line with their old TV selves, Mulder is sympathetic to the man's assertions, Skully skeptical. "Do you believe him?" an agent (rapper Alvin "Xzibit" Joiner) dismissively asks Mulder, who replies, "Let's say I wanna believe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: X Files Movie: For X-Philes Only | 7/24/2008 | See Source »

...toward suicide as well as alcohol abuse. That study of about 250 women suffering eating disorders showed the risk of death by suicide among by anorexic women to be as much as 57 times the expected rate of a healthy woman. Research on suicide in 2006 by psychologist Thomas Joiner at Florida State University took those conclusions one step further and suggested anorexics habituate to pain, making them fearless of death, and thus more likely choose a more lethal means to end their lives. Holm-Denoma's research, however, is one of the first studies of the specific methods that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Suicidal Anorexics: Determined to Die? | 2/28/2008 | See Source »

Almost every Saturday morning since 1975, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., WHRB has filled the waves with traditional country, bluegrass, folk, Cajun, and Tex-Mex tunes, spun by Joiner and his late co-host Brian “Ol’ Sinc” Sinclair...

Author: By Sam Teller, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Roger That, Hillbillies! | 4/21/2005 | See Source »

Sinclair’s passing in 2002 forced Joiner to pick up a new co-host in his hilariously named longtime friend Larry Flint. But beside the change in line-up, not much else has shifted in the studio since 1948, when Dwight Benton “Pappy Ben” Minnich ’51 started the show...

Author: By Sam Teller, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Roger That, Hillbillies! | 4/21/2005 | See Source »

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