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Konstantin Feoktistov, a Soviet Spacecraft Engineer, Dies at 83

Dell Hymes, Linguist With a Wide Net, Dies at 82

Hacked E-Mail Is New Fodder for Climate Dispute

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U. of Nebraska Defeats Tighter Limits on Stem Cell Research

Albert Crewe, First to Show a Single Atom, Is Dead at 82

New Data Shed Light on Large-Animal Extinction

Sounds During Sleep Aid Memory, Study Finds

Industrialized Nations Unveil Plans to Rein in Emissions

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World Briefing | Europe: Italy: Galileo?s Body Parts to Be on Display

University Weighs Tighter Limits on Stem Cell Research

Seas Grow Less Effective at Absorbing Emissions

California Imposes Rule for Efficiency on Some TVs

Little Progress in Freeing a Rover on Mars

A Genetics Company Fails, Its Research Too Complex

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First Mention: Fluoride, 1931

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[News of the Week] Planetary Science: Yes, There's Ice on the Moon?But How Much, and What Use Is It?

[News of the Week] Japan: Belt-Tightening Could Claim Some Scientific Scalps

[News of the Week] Astrophysics: Galactic Glare Reveals Birthplace of Cosmic Rays

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[News Focus] Archaeology: Better Homes and Hearths, Neandertal-Style

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[News Focus] Ninth International Plant Molecular Biology Congress: Chloroplast Shuffle

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[News Focus] Ninth International Plant Molecular Biology Congress: A Question of Balance

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[Letter] Environmental Markets: Concentrate on Criteria

[Letter] Environmental Markets: The Power of Regulation

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[Perspective] Materials Science: The Hotter the Engine, the Better

[Perspective] Chemistry: Hydrate Molecular Ballet

[Perspective] Plant Science: Solving the Maze

[Perspective] Paleontology: Megafaunal Decline and Fall

[Review] Controlling the Velocity of Light Pulses

[Brevia] The Palomero Genome Suggests Metal Effects on Domestication

[Brevia] Strengthening Individual Memories by Reactivating Them During Sleep

[Report] Detection of Gamma Rays from a Starburst Galaxy

[Report] Shape-Controlled Colloidal Interactions in Nematic Liquid Crystals

[Report] Atmospheric Sulfur in Archean Komatiite-Hosted Nickel Deposits

[Report] Geophysical Detection of Relict Metasomatism from an Archean (~3.5 Ga) Subduction Zone

[Report] Nanoplasmonic Probes of Catalytic Reactions

[Report] Microsecond Simulations of Spontaneous Methane Hydrate Nucleation and Growth

[Report] Aragonite Undersaturation in the Arctic Ocean: Effects of Ocean Acidification and Sea Ice Melt

[Report] Pleistocene Megafaunal Collapse, Novel Plant Communities, and Enhanced Fire Regimes in North America

[Report] High Symbiont Relatedness Stabilizes Mutualistic Cooperation in Fungus-Growing Termites

[Report] Epicontinental Seas Versus Open-Ocean Settings: The Kinetics of Mass Extinction and Origination

[Report] A Periplasmic Reducing System Protects Single Cysteine Residues from Oxidation

[Report] The B73 Maize Genome: Complexity, Diversity, and Dynamics

[Report] A First-Generation Haplotype Map of Maize

[Report] Paternal Dominance of Trans-eQTL Influences Gene Expression Patterns in Maize Hybrids

[Report] Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixation in the Fungus Gardens of Leaf-Cutter Ants

[Report] Structural Basis of Immune Evasion at the Site of CD4 Attachment on HIV-1 gp120

[Report] The Schizophrenia Susceptibility Gene dysbindin Controls Synaptic Homeostasis

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Arts & Letters Daily (22 Nov 2009)

Mikhail Khodorkovsky's fate stands as a warning, not only to Russians, but to the West. Why is the Kremlin so afraid to see him set free?... more

In 1807, a Broadwood square grand piano, no. 10651, was taken by canal from London north to Lancaster for a John Langshaw, organist. Therein lies a story... more

The fetishization of change is a symptom of a deep intellectual malaise in modern education theory, where truth, knowledge, and meaning have merely a provisional character... more


Arts & Letters Daily (21 Nov 2009)

Mikhail Khodorkovsky's fate stands as a warning, not only to Russians, but to the West. Why is the Kremlin so afraid to see him set free?... more

In 1807, a Broadwood square grand piano, no. 10651, was taken by canal from London north to Lancaster for a John Langshaw, organist. Therein lies a story... more

The fetishization of change is a symptom of a deep intellectual malaise in modern education theory, where truth, knowledge, and meaning have merely a provisional character... more


Arts & Letters Daily (20 Nov 2009)

Dogs do it, lions do it, even babies in the womb do it, and though weird theories abound, nobody really knows why we yawn... more

Françoise d'Aubigné: born in a prison to a murderer, was a child beggar, then later on governess to Louis XIV's children, and finally his mistress and wife... more

When Jane Austen doesn't like a character in one of her novels, she ceases to be the subtle, witty ironist everyone adores and turns into a vicious moral harridan... more


Arts & Letters Daily (19 Nov 2009)

Lew Wallace, General in the Civil War, a man Billy the Kid wanted to kill, wrote a favorite 19th-century novel, made into a 20th-century movie: Ben-Hur... more

"Earth is the cradle of mankind, but one does not stay in the cradle forever." Space pioneer Konstantin Tsiolkovskii had a vision... more

The Mumbai attacks: sixty harrowing hours. Jason Motlagh's minute-by-minute account shows us scenes of great heroism and horrifying cruelty... more


Arts & Letters Daily (18 Nov 2009)

Should historic art be repatriated to its land of origin? Imagine the Renaissance without the spell of "looted" antiquities from Greece... more

Friedrich Nietzsche cultivated the alien form of Dionysus on the soil of his native Pietism. In truth, he never overcame his childhood religion... more

Louis Armstrong, even as a little boy, "could easily see the ungodly treatment White Folks were handing the poor Jewish family I worked for"... more


About Arts & Letters Daily

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