It is the fourth state to seek damages related to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010. Alex Cobb, the Rays’ starter, handcuffed the Yankees with a tricky combination of off-speed pitches, and Andy Pettitte made one crucial mistake. CINCINNATI — Brandon Phillips – the last man standing in Cincinnati’s season of unending injuries – drove in three runs, and Homer Bailey shut out Pittsburgh for six innings on Sunday, setting up a 6-0 victory as the NL Central’s two more forlorn franchises ended the season together. Xan Brooks, Henry Barnes and Peter Bradshaw review BlancanievesXan BrooksPeter BradshawHenry BarnesKen MacfarlaneThibaut RemyNoah Payne-Frank The bride is studying for a bachelor’s degree in biological sciences; the groom is a freelance sports reporter. Why is this vote so important, for Kenya and for the continent of Africa as a whole? Irish bishops call the legislation, which would permit abortions in cases where a threat existed to a woman’s life, morally unacceptable.
Google’s much-dreaded announcement on the coming demise of Google Reader has alarmed users in Iran — and drawn attention to the scale and complexity of online censorship there. As Quartz’s Zach Seward explained in a great post yesterday, Google Reader is one of the few ways Iranians can access Web sites blocked in Iran. (According to ViewDNS, a site that monitors servers, the government censors roughly one in three news sites and one in four of all sites on the general Web.)
To quote Seward: Read full article >> March is
my pudgiest month. Winter has made it challenging to get to the gym or outside for regular runs. But now spring is nigh (it officially starts March 20!), and shorts-wearing weather can’t be far behind.
So now’s the time to start getting in shape for the warm months
ahead.
I will if you w…
Adapted from the novel by Jonathan Lethem, the show will play at the Dallas Theater Center before coming to the Public Theater in New York. Satellite images show 2,275 destroyed buildings in a Nigerian
village, corroborating residents’ accounts that soldiers burned their homes, Human Rights Watch said. The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has announced that Professor Erik Demaine and his father, CSAIL Visiting Scientist Martin Demaine, have been named 2013 Guggenheim Fellows for their work with origami from wood, plastic, metal and glass. The Demaines were selected for this honor from a group of almost 3,000 applicants and are two of the 175 scholars, artists and scientists honored by the Guggenheim Foundation this year. “These artists and writers, scholars and scientists, represent the best of the best,†said Edward Hirsch, president of the Foundation, about the 2013 class of Guggenheim Fellows. “Since 1925, the Guggenheim Foundation has always bet everything on the individual, and we’re thrilled to continue the tradition with this wonderfully talented and diverse group. It’s an honor to be able to support these individuals to do the work they were meant to do.â€Erik Demaine, a MacArthur Fellow and Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow, is a member of the Theory of Computation Group and the
Algorithms Group at CSAIL.
An accomplished artist, his interests include origami and glassblowing. Several of his curved origami sculptures are housed in the permanent collection at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.Martin
Demaine is the Angelika and Barton Weller Artist-in-Residence in the MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, a technical instructor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering Glass Lab and a member of the Theory of Computation Group at CSAIL.Since
its establishment in 1925, the Foundation has granted over $306 million in fellowships to more than 17,500 individuals, including scores of Nobel laureates, poets laureate, winners of Pulitzer Prizes, Fields Medals and
of other important, internationally recognized honors.
Blake Wheeler and Evander Kane scored 57 seconds apart in the third period and the Winnipeg Jets rallied to beat the Boston Bruins 3-1 on Tuesday.
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Former Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) heaped praise on Sen.
Ted Cruz (R-Tex.)
Friday night as the Lone Star State lawmaker attended a dinner in his former colleague’s honor.
DeMint shocked the political establishment by resigning suddenly in December to assume the helm of the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank. He returned
to his home state Friday night as the South Carolina Republican Party honored him at its annual fundraising dinner.
During the dinner, Gov.
Nikki Haley (R) also bestowed on DeMint the Order of the Palmetto, the state’s highest civilian honor. Read full article >> Watch our film to learn more about the tyu the highest court of the land and meet some of the justicesI thought the supreme court was in America? Where does Lord Sugar sit? What sort of cases does the UK supreme court hear? These are just some of the questions — both serious and surreal — recently posed by the younger visitors to our home in Parliament Square.Although the supreme court is the highest court in the land – acting as the final court of appeal in the UK for civil cases, and for all criminal cases from England, Wales and Northern Ireland – many people understandably struggle to appreciate the pivotal role the court plays in our legal and constitutional systems.Replacing
the appellate committee of the House of Lords, the supreme court was established as a separate entity in part to increase the accessibility, and transparency, of how important legal issues are dealt with by the justices. To that end, in addition to adjudicating on cases, one of our key objectives is to educate and inspire people about the UK justice systems.Since
opening our doors in 2009, we have developed an exhibition space about our history and work for all visitors to see;
we produce digestible summaries of all of the court’s judgments for the press and public to follow the court’s jurisprudence; we stream our proceedings live online and upload judgment summaries to our YouTube channel so that the public can see what is going on; and, perhaps most importantly, we welcome over 300 school, college and university groups each year for guided tours and talks.We
hope our new educational film will prove a helpful addition to the growing range of learning resources that
the court has developed to aid teaching in the classroom about the law and to complement visits here. Primarily aimed at GSCE/Standards students – but hopefully of interest to a wider
audience too – the film explores the role and the workings of the supreme court, taking a look around our home and meeting some of the justices and judicial assistants who work here.For
those of you studying at a more advanced level, visiting courts will no doubt form part of your current course or perhaps one of the requirements for securing a place. But if you have not yet visited
the supreme court, we hope the film will entice you to come and see the UK’s highest court at work.
We are
all familiar with the phrase that “not only must justice be done; it must also be seen to be done” — and observing proceedings here will certainly add a new perspective to all those authorities you read about from the House of Lords and now the UK supreme court.UK supreme courtJudiciaryStudying lawJenny Roweguardian.co.uk
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All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds Results of analysis at Cern in Switzerland show particle behaves precisely
as expectedThe more they look at it, the more the new particle discovered at Cern last year resembles the long-sought Higgs boson, the mysterious particle that confers mass on the building blocks of nature.Scientists at the home of the Large Hadron Collider on the outskirts of Geneva said their latest analysis, based on more than twice as much data as before, pointed firmly towards the particle first described in 1964 by Professor Peter Higgs at Edinburgh University.Physicists
at the lab announced the discovery of a new particle in July last year, but cautioned that the results were preliminary. The latest measurements show that the particle behaves precisely as expected, leading some to drop their reservations over its identity.
“I’m confident that it’s a Higgs particle.
I don’t need to call it Higgs-like any more,” said Joe Incandela, spokesman for the CMS team at Cern. “I may need to eat my words one day, but I think that’s very unlikely.”The
particle was discovered among the subatomic debris spewed out from hundreds of trillions of proton collisions inside the Large Hadron Collider. Two teams, working on the huge detectors Atlas and CMS, announced a tentative discovery of the particle last year.The
Higgs particle is highly unstable and disintegrates into other subatomic particles as soon as it is created.
The latest data shows that the new particle decays as predicted for the simplest type of Higgs boson.The
scientists also measured a quantum property of the particle called spin.
The Higgs boson should have no spin, and this has so far been borne out by measurements. Details ty2u latest results were announced at a physics conference in La Thuile in Italy.The discovery marks the end of a decades-long search for the particle, and the beginning of a new effort among physicists to understand its place in nature.Though all measurements to date point to the particle being a simple and singular Higgs boson, many physicists hope that relatives of the Higgs particle await discovery.One theory, called supersymmetry, calls for five different varieties of Higgs boson. The theory would take physics in a radical new direction, and pave the way to understanding dark matter, the invisible substance that clings around galaxies and makes up around one fifth of the universe.The Large Hadron Collider was switched off earlier this year for maintenance and repairs that will last until 2015.
When the collider is turned back on, physicists hope to push it to its full design energy, nearly twice that achieved so far.Higgs bosonCernParticle physicsPhysicsSwitzerlandEuropeIan Sampleguardian.co.uk
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| Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds — The Federal Reserve’s chief policymaking group has vast power over the finances of ordinary people, businesses and investors. The consequences of its interest-rate decisions range wide: from people’s ability to get affordable loans to the price of cereal at the grocery store or gasoline at the… Watch the trailer for Michael Winterbottom’s biopic of Paul Raymond, the ‘King of Soho’ “Welcome back” are two words you’d really rather not hear at a hospital, especially if you’ve just been discharged. Yet one in five Medicare patients found themselves back in the hospital within 30 days of leaving it in 2003 and 2004, according to a recent study in the New England Journal of Medi…
Four performances to keep an eye on this summer.
A BP drilling engineer involved in the planning of the Macondo well declined to testify before a federal investigative panel Friday, invoking through his lawyer his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination.
After President Hugo Chávez’s death, The Times’s William Neuman surveys the scene in Caracas and the president of the Inter-American Dialogue examines American
relations going forward.
In less than a week and with nothing more than water and salt, you can cure a deli-worthy pickle.
The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority is considering whether to recommend legalisation of “mitochondrial replacement” techniques designed to avoid the transmission of mitochondrial diseases (Report, 17 September 2012). We believe the benefits to a small number of parents are heavily outweighed by the risks to the child and to society. This would be the first instance of regulatory approval for modification of the human germ line. There is a long-standing international consensus that we should not cross this ethical line, since it is likely to lead to a future of genetically modified “designer” babies.Such
a slide has already been seen with drugs and surgery.
The ugly beginnings of a eugenic market are already visible in the US, where Ivy League student donor eggs are priced 10 times higher than those of working-class women. Genetic enhancement also risks dehumanising and commodifying relationships between children and their parents. These downstream consequences cannot be ignored in making the present decision.Mitochondrial
replacement techniques also create significant epigenetic risks to the prospective child. Prevention of mitochondrial disease can be more safely and reliably accomplished through egg donation. The benefit of mitochondrial replacement is that it fulfils the mother’s
desire to be genetically related to her child.
Such desires are understandable, but this is not a medical benefit. In our view, the benefit for a relatively small number of women of
being genetically related to their child does not nearly justify the potential health risks to the child and the deleterious consequences of inheritable human genetic engineering.Dr David King Human Genetics Alert, UKDr Marcy Darnovsky Center for Genetics and Society, USAProfessor Stuart Newman New York Medical College, USADr Murdo Macdonald Science, Religion and Technology Project, Church of Scotland, UKDr Abby Lippman Professor Emerita McGill University, CanadaProfessor Shree Mulay Memorial University, CanadaDr Gina Maranto University of Miami, USAJaydee Hanson International Center for Technology Assessment, USADr Tina Stevens Alliance for Humane Biotechnology, USADiane Beeson Professor Emerita California State University, USADr Carmel Shalev Haifa University, IsraelProfessor Charis Thompson University of California Berkeley, USAUta Wagenmann Gen-ethisches Netzwerk, GermanyJudy Norsigian Our Bodies Ourselves, USAHedva Eyal Isha L’isha, IsraelGeneticsBiologyguardian.co.uk © 2013 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies.
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