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...year-old creator of the comic strip Peanuts announced two days ago that he will be retiring from the comics business after 49 years of drawing Charlie Brown and Snoopy, Linus and Lucy. He decided this after undergoing treatment for colon cancer, realizing he wants to spend more time with his family...
...room knows his round head with scarcely a hair on it. Connect the words "football" and "funny" and you'll probably picture Peppermint Patty pulling the ball away from Charlie Brown yet again. And you can't imagine the concept of a security blanket without recalling images of Linus...
...Linux, as you may or may not know, is an operating system for the PC that was invented in 1991 by the Finnish programmer Linus Torvalds while he was still a student. Since then it's developed a cult following, partly because of its reputation for speed, flexibility and stability, and partly because Torvalds has chosen to give it away for free. This latter is the major reason why EBIZ chose Linux for the Pia. By choosing not to use Windows, says EBIZ CEO Jeffrey Rassas, "we're taking away the computer's single most expensive component." MORE...
...widely known that many of Stanford's departments, both in the science and engineering fields as well as the social sciences, are second to none. Faculty, past and present, include Linus Pauling, Richard Zare, Robert Sapolsky, Eric Roberts, Steven Chu, John Taylor, Richard Zimbardo, Condoleeza Rice. If you know anything about their respective fields, you'll know who we're talking about...
...American biochemist Linus Pauling touts vitamin C as a cure for everything from cancer to the common cold