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...female Supreme Court Justices or Cabinet members or network anchors in 1972. Part of our package revisits some of the women we profiled back then, including one who worked for years as a welder and is now the only female crane operator at the Kennedy Space Center. NBC Nightly News will be featuring a profile of these women, and video pieces will appear on TIME.com...
...magazine." At that point, even the late language guru William Safire called for surrender. The Times refused on the grounds that the title had not passed into common usage. "We reconsider it from time to time," the editors mused, but "to our ear, it still sounds too contrived for news writing." Only in 1986 did the Times relent; the editors at Ms. sent flowers...
...CERN) was arrested Oct. 8 after French officials discovered encoded e-mails between him and members of an al-Qaeda cell based in North Africa. Adlčne Hicheur, who worked at CERN's Large Hadron Collider near Geneva, allegedly offered to help the group plan attacks in France. Initial news reports focused on Hicheur's work at the high-energy research lab, prompting speculation that al-Qaeda might be attempting to create nuclear or radioactive weapons. But a spokesman for CERN said the lab has been closed since last September and that it doesn't generate enough radioactive material...
...rally, lifting the Dow Jones industrial average above 10,000 points for the first time since last October. The symbolic milestone followed better-than-expected September retail sales and once troubled banking giant JPMorgan Chase's report that it earned $3.6 billion in the third quarter. Optimists considered the news an omen of improved economic conditions despite stubbornly high unemployment...
ANITA DUNN, a White House official, referring to the Fox News network, which she dubbed "the communications arm of the Republican Party...