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...Braveheart--and having seen her sister through a terminal illness. "All your life you try to imagine what bad news sounds like," she writes, "but when you actually hear bad news, it simply makes no sense; it's like being told the definition of a black hole by a physicist, directions by a local, the evidence of God by a priest." Tough, tender and tearful, Hunt Sisters helps us make sense of it all. --By Lev Grossman

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Her Sister's Keeper | 9/8/2003 | See Source »

Meanwhile, at my summer digs—an MIT-affiliated enclave of feminist physicist types known as the Women’s Independent Living Group (WILG)—Joni Mitchell is blaring and Cary Grant is starring on the living room tube...

Author: By Lauren R. Dorgan, | Title: Wonderful, Diverse 02139 | 6/27/2003 | See Source »

Science also led Maddox to her husband, John, a former physicist-turned-journalist, whom she met in 1958 at a science conference in Geneva, “after all of [her] friends were already married...

Author: By Lauren A.E. Schuker, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ‘Late Starter’ Writes On Telecommunications, Famous Women | 6/2/2003 | See Source »

...sake, he runs a tight ship: “Its about coming out of here with ten fingers versus not.” The record is good— the last serious accident was in 1967. In those days of long hair and loose morals, a trendy young physicist got his hair caught in a spinning lathe...

Author: By J.a. Kramer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: If I Had A Blow Torch, I’d Blow Torch in the Morning | 4/10/2003 | See Source »

...Iraq, 78 dissidents and independent journalists have been jailed, accused of treason for allegedly being financed by the U.S. The evidence? Some of them recently met with American diplomatic officials who are permitted to work in Havana. But a prominent dissident who has not been arrested is physicist Oswaldo Paya, 51, head of the Varela Project, which is calling for a constitutional referendum on free speech and elections. Castro's ire at the growing popularity of Paya seems a key impetus for the dragnet, since most of those arrested are Varela activists. But Castro has apparently decided that arresting Paya...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cuba: Castro Sneaks In A Roundup | 4/7/2003 | See Source »

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