Profile: Nick Clegg Dec 19, 2007
He studied anthropology and archaeology at the University of Cambridge, and was also educated in Minnesota and at the College of Europe in Bruges. His Spanish wife, Miriam Gonzlez Durntez, has a successful European career of her own. (Guardian Unlimited)
Minnesota Vikings All-State HS Football Team Dec 17, 2007
Sam Solberg Cambridge Isanti QB Senior. Tyler Terry Eastview NG Senior. (GoldenSports.net)
Snowy storm leaves Northeast dazed Dec 17, 2007
Joanie Tobin, of Cambridge, Mass. shovels out her car Sunday, Dec. 16, 2007, from beneath the 5-8 inches of snow the second storm of the week. (Brainerd Daily Dispatch)
More Plant Litter From Higher Carbon Dioxide Could Boost Carbon Released Into Atmosphere Dec 13, 2007
Emma Sayer, postdoctoral fellow at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Jennifer Powers, an assistant professor in the University of Minnesota's Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, and Edmund Tanner, researcher at Cambridge University, published the findings of their long-term study on the effects of increased plant litter on soil carbon and nutrient cycling in the December 12 edition of PLoS ONE. ... Emma Sayer of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and Cambridge... (Science Daily)
Paulson's Subprime Mortgage Plan Surfaces Too Late to Stem Housing Slide Dec 8, 2007
At best, it may stop some of the hemorrhaging of the housing market, but it doesn't necessarily turn things around,'' said Nicolas Retsinas, director of Harvard University's Joint Center for Housing Studies in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The fundamental problem with housing is oversupply. (Bloomberg)
Comedian says Senate run no joke Dec 6, 2007
He has taken up the politicians habit of peppering tales with the names of people he has talked to on his campaign trail, like Kathy Kawalek, the nurse in Cambridge, Minn. who he says told him of elderly people growing ill because they stopped taking costly medications. (MSNBC -- Politics)
Contemporary fashion Dec 5, 2007
Al Franken: Stuart Smalley should abandon his bid for the Senate seat occupied by Minnesota's Norm Coleman and move to liberal-loving Cambridge, where he could hone his stump speech while waiting along with the rest of us for Ted Kennedy and John Kerry to retire. Winona Ryder: The actress, who's named after the tiny Minnesota town where she was born, could come east and finally visit the boyhood home of her former flame Matt Damon. (Boston Globe)
Minn. program encourages hunters to donate deer to food shelves Dec 5, 2007
Her organization, Family Pathways, has locations in Forest Lake, Onamia, Cambridge, North Branch, Lindstrom and Sandstone. Wills said the meat is flying off shelves and she expects it to last about a month. (Winona Daily News, MN)
Oosight Microscope Enables Embryonic Stem Cell Breakthrough Dec 3, 2007
Mitalipov's stem-cell derivation succeeded, he says, largely due to the Oosight microscope system developed by Cambridge Research & Instrumentation Inc. (CRi) of Woburn Mass ... The LC-PolScope continues to be refined and expanded for live cell imaging at the MBL. Its technology is being adapted to different application areas by Cambridge Research & Instrumentation and is sold under trademarks such as Oosight and Abrio. (Science Daily)
Blood Stem Cells Fight Invaders, Study Finds Dec 1, 2007
2-Section on Developmental and Stem Cell Biology, Joslin Diabetes Center, Boston, MA, and Harvard Stem Cell Institute, Cambridge, MA. Adapted from materials provided by. (Science Daily)
A reformer troubled by Calamity Clegg tag Nov 25, 2007
Education Westminster School, Cambridge, University of Minnesota. Journalism Trainee journalist, Nation magazine, New York, 1990. (Times Online)
Stem cell breakthrough uses no embryos Nov 20, 2007
"It's a huge deal," agreed Rudolf Jaenisch, a prominent stem cell scientist at the Whitehead Institute in Cambridge, Mass. "You have the proof of principle that you can do it.". (Brainerd Daily Dispatch)
High school biowizards break new ground in beating top college teams Nov 17, 2007
All were looking ahead to the presentations they would make the weekend of Nov. 3-4 at the iGEM Jamboree at MIT in Cambridge, Mass ... The high school team had scored higher than Harvard, MIT, Caltech, Princeton, the University of Cambridge in England and more than three dozen other universities. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Sports)
Big bright puffball Holmes is a comet like no other Nov 10, 2007
" According to astronomers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Observatory in Cambridge, Mass., Comet Holmes was obscure until Oct. 27 when it began flaring brilliantly, and within three days was nearly a million times brighter than it had been. Three days later, astronomer Pierre Bastien at the University of Montreal in Canada reported that Holmes was showing evidence of a faint cometary tail, but if the tail is there it's too faint for ordinary eyes to see. "It's all still all a bit of a mystery, and... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Sports)
Old trestle bridge okay for now, to get further check Nov 3, 2007
Plaquemine Post South - News. Saturday, November 03, 2007. (Plaquemine Post South, LA)
* WORLD NEWS: QUICK TAKE Nov 1, 2007
A team at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, found the new black hole using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. The discovery paper is to appear in the Nov. 1 edition of Astrophysical Journal Letters. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Today in History - Oct. 30 Oct 30, 2007
Ten years ago: A jury in Cambridge, Mass. convicted British au pair Louise Woodward of second-degree murder in the death of 8-month-old Matthew Eappen. (Chippewa Falls Chippewa Herald, WI)
Today In History - October 30, 2007 Oct 30, 2007
Ten years ago: A jury in Cambridge, Massachusetts, convicted British au pair Louise Woodward of second-degree murder in the death of eight-month-old Matthew Eappen. (The judge, Hiller B. Zobel, later reduced the verdict to manslaughter and set Woodward free. (CBS2.com, CA)
Surgical mistakes persist in Bay State Oct 26, 2007
At Cambridge Health Alliance's Somerville Hospital, two patients with the same first name were waiting in separate exam rooms in the gynecological clinic one day in November 2005. One patient needed a colposcopy, an examination of the vagina and cervix with a magnifying device, and a biopsy, and the other needed a routine, less-invasive checkup. (Boston Globe)
> read more Oct 25, 2007
According to IAU Circular 8886, issued today by the in Cambridge, Massachusetts, A. Henriquez Santana at Tenerife, Canary Islands, was the first to notice the outburst shortly after local midnight on Wednesday morning, October 24th. The comet was then about 8th magnitude, but within minutes Ramon Naves and colleagues in Barcelona, Spain, caught it at magnitude 7. (SkyAndTelescope.com)
Trends & Innovations - Tuesday Oct 24, 2007
Researchers at the Univ. of Cambridge said fiber made from carbon nanotubes can be woven into body armor. Carbon nanotubes are hollow cylinders just one atom thick. (Yahoo News -- Technology)
Doctors, Firms, Big Investors Have A Place To Meet Online Oct 24, 2007
Palestrant founded Cambridge, Mass. -based Sermo in 2005. (Investors Business Daily)
US Hopes for Coal Gasification Ride on One Project Oct 23, 2007
But success of the project will not be quick or cheap, said Lawrence Makovich, a vice president with Cambridge Energy Research Associates. "Reducing carbon in electric production is a very big challenge and it's something that is going to be very expensive," Makovich said. (Planet Ark, United States)
Sarah Goldhagen has a plan to upgrade the nation's aging infrastructure Oct 22, 2007
"By way of contrast, she notes that half a century ago - in the Moses era - Josep Lluis Sert, dean of the school of design at Harvard, was also chair of the Cambridge City Planning Commission and a close adviser to both the Harvard president and the Boston Redevelopment Authority."Infrastructure," says Goldhagen, summing it all up, "is where architecture and politics merge. "Robert Campbell, the Globe's architecture critic, can be reached at . ? Copyright 2007 Globe Newspaper Company. More from... (Boston Globe)
Cards Earn Top 10 Finish in Championship 8+ at Head of the Charles Oct 22, 2007
The Head of the Charles, hosted by the Cambridge Boat Club, is the largest two-day regatta in the world annually drawing nearly 300,000 spectators and 7,000 athletes to the banks of the Charles River. Up next, the Cards will compete at the Head of the Chattahoochee Regatta on Nov. 3-4 in Chattanooga, Tenn. (Uoflsports.com)
Liberal intent Oct 21, 2007
Clegg will admit that after Westminster (school) and Cambridge he briefly became a 'ski bum', attempted to write a novel ('embarrassingly bad') and even dressed in drag (at a New York fashion party) ... Educated at Westminster School in London and Robinson College, Cambridge. (Guardian Unlimited)
UMass Crew Rows At The Head Of The Charles On Sunday Oct 21, 2007
I-90 (Mass Pike) East to Exit 18 Brighton/Cambridge. Follow signs to Cambridge ... When the road forks (near the Cambridge Boat Club), stay to the left, following signs for Watertown/Newton. (Umassathletics.com)
Races at a glance Oct 19, 2007
Men: Cambridge BC, which assumed the crown from four-time champ 1980 RC, goes for three in a row, with Vesper BC and three-time winner Palm Beach in the way ... Cambridge's Carlo Zezza, half a dozen years younger, is the defender ... Women: Catherine Kemper, bidding for her third straight, will duel Cambridge's three-time champ, Brooke Stevens, and Harriet. (Boston Globe)
Gopal: A shameful silence Oct 17, 2007
Priyamvada Gopal teaches in the English faculty at Cambridge University. (Zmag.org)
Americans win economics Nobel Oct 16, 2007
He has taught at Cambridge, MIT and Harvard. Pioneers. (BBC News -- Americas)
Without sex for 80 mn years! Oct 14, 2007
A Cambridge team says the creature owes its existence to a genetic quirk that offers some recompense for its prolonged celibacy ... Dr Alan Tunnacliffe, from the Institute of Biotechnology at the University of Cambridge, who led the research, said his team had been able to show for the first time that gene copies in asexual animals can have different functions. (India Times, India -- Health/Science)
US, UK scientists win Nobel in medicine Oct 8, 2007
Evans, reached while visiting his daughter in Cambridge, England, said "I haven't come to terms with it yet. In many ways it is the boyhood aspiration of science, isn't it? And here I am unexpectedly with it. It's amazing.". Smithies told The Associated Press getting award was "very gratifying." After working on the research for more than 20 years, he said it's "rather enjoyable being recognized at this level.". (Brainerd Daily Dispatch)
Pioneering filmmaker Ed Pincus returns to the field to put a focus on Katrina Oct 6, 2007
As a Cambridge documentary filmmaker in the 1960s and '70s, Ed Pincus philosophized about a director's connection to his subject, then made an epic film about his family life ... By phone from Vermont, Pincus recalls driving from Cambridge to Vermont after one encounter, finishing in two hours a drive that usually took three, arriving white as a sheet. (Boston Globe)
Dr. Lowery to lead seminar on Revelation at Higbee chapel Oct 6, 2007
Professor Lowery is a member of the Evangelical Theological Society and the Tyndale Fellowship of Cambridge, England. He has written numerous articles for The Christian Standard, The Lookout, the Standard Lesson Commentary, Leaven, The Stone-Campbell Journal, and Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society. (Moberly Monitor-Index, MO)
Seats of honor: colorful group in Harvard Square watches old town team on big TV Sep 29, 2007
The club began five years ago, about a year after a television first went into the window, when Dennis Coveney, a 46-year-old landscaper from Cambridge, brought a chair and began hanging out every night. Soon, he says, a core group of regulars emerged, leading to an attendance-based hierarchy that gives members dibs on one of the chairs Cardullo's lets them stash above the doors. (Boston Globe -- Local)
Perps ditch the heroin, keep the Viagra Sep 26, 2007
The officer conducted a regular traffic stop near Cambridge Street near North Harvard. The operator of the vehicle presented a valid license, but his registration did not match. (Boston University Daily Free Press, MA)
Obituaries for Wednesday, September 26, 2007 Sep 26, 2007
After retiring in 2003, Mary spent her winters in Harlingen, Texas, and her summers in Cambridge, Minn. Mary loved life. (Winona Daily News, MN)
Hope grows that Khadafy's liberal son will change Libya Sep 24, 2007
"He's put himself forward as someone who represents the new generation in Libya and who also represents his father," said George Joffe, an expert on the region at Cambridge University. "He's the most likely potential leader - no one else is better positioned - but he's a work in progress, and for the moment it's not at all clear that he has the control to lead, to be a successor.". (San Francisco Chronicle)
ECU Notes: Japanese students visit ECU Sep 24, 2007
On April 11, Mark Nicholls, a librarian at St. Johns College at Cambridge University, will deliver a lecture about Sir Walter Raleigh and Thomas Harriot. Nicholls is the author of several historical books about Raleigh and Harriot. (The Daily Reflector)
Minnesota experiences storms as fall season approaches Sep 22, 2007
date, including 32 F at Rochester, 31 F at Albert Lea, 21 F at Cambridge, 29 F at Jordan, 21 degrees F at Hibbing, and 36 degrees F in the Twin Cities (MSP Airport). Seeley said the cold mornings have accelerated the fall leaf color change. (Agri-View, WI)
Car sharing gains steam on campuses Sep 20, 2007
The country's two largest car-sharing companies, Zipcar of Cambridge, Mass. and Flexcar of Seattle both started and continue to operate as general consumer services. (USA Today -- News)
Report blasts UC brass for waste, poor management Sep 15, 2007
Released by the university Friday, the much-anticipated report from the Monitor Group, a Cambridge, Mass. consulting firm, said the president's office "must act quickly to restore its credibility and repair the University's governance model.". (San Francisco Chronicle -- Politics)
Genome study shines light on genetic link to height Sep 3, 2007
Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Divisions of Genetics and Endocrinology and Program in Genomics, Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. (EurekAlert!)
FDA Approves New Smallpox Vaccine Sep 2, 2007
ACAM2000 is made by Acambis Inc. of Cambridge, England and Cambridge, Mass. The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention already has stockpiled 192. (WCCO.com, MN)
Keeping their heads in the Cloud Aug 31, 2007
Today's Globe Local Politics Opinion Magazine Education NECN Special reports Obituaries. Indie collective's music meditates on philosophy. (Boston Globe -- Living)
A Sanctuary for Demoniacs Aug 26, 2007
Anchorage, Alaska Fairbanks, Alaska Chandler, Arizona Fresno, California Los Angeles, California San Diego, California San Francisco, California Sonoma County, California Evanston, Illinois Cicero, Illinois Cambridge, Massachusetts Orleans, Massachusetts Portland, Maine Baltimore, Maryland Takoma Park, Maryland Ann Arbor, Michigan Minneapolis, Minnesota Durham, North Carolina Albuquerque, New Mexico Aztec, New Mexico Rio Arriba County, New Mexico Santa Fe, New Mexico New York, New York Ashland,... (Townhall.com)
Princeton Beats Harvard, Yale for Top U.S. News Ranking as Colleges Object Aug 17, 2007
U.S. News also ranked undergraduate business programs, selecting Penn's Wharton School first, followed by the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge and California's Haas School of Business ... Harvard University (2) Cambridge, Massachusetts 3 ... Massachusetts Institute of Cambridge, Massachusetts Technology (T4) 8. (Bloomberg -- US)
Full Story... Aug 16, 2007
The team qualified for state and nationals by going undefeated at the Cambridge qualifier on July 7. The team has been playing solid baseball over the last six weeks peaking at the right time. (Albert Lea Tribune, MN)
Concert Highlights for the Week of August 15 - 21 Aug 15, 2007
The Cambridge, Massachusetts, band majestically pours in a wide spectrum of instruments, making complex arrangements that somehow never muddle the overall sound. Reminiscent of the Album Leaf, the group provide a variation of dreary-yet-sweet melodies, jazzy baselines, and innocent piano. (City Pages)
DM&E: Second round bids imminent; unclear if financing commitment still in place Aug 14, 2007
Recruiter: Cambridge University Press. Recruiter: Witan Jardine. (FT.com -- Markets)
Great Race XXX results Aug 13, 2007
HALL, Aaron Harvard Cycling / Cambridge, MA 9:15:00 ... MCLENITHAN, Austin Farm Team Cycling / Cambridge, NY 9:32:00 ... WINKLER, Alwin Cambridge Valley Cycling / Salem, NY 9:59:30. (Auburn Citizen, NY)
Most Iberville bridges in good condition; two set for repairs Aug 10, 2007
Plaquemine Post South - News. Friday, August 10, 2007. (Plaquemine Post South, LA)
Ex-MIT Prof Allegedly Staged Own Shooting Aug 2, 2007
Donovan adamantly denies any role in his shooting and insists he was attacked by two strangers who approached him as he got into his car in the parking lot of his business, Cambridge Executive Enterprises, on the night of Dec. 16, 2005. During the 911 call Donovan made from his cell phone after the shooting, he told a state police dispatcher that his son James, now 40, "laundered $180 million" and had threatened to kill him. (CBS News -- World)
The dating game comes to Fenway Jul 31, 2007
And "Little Children" author Tom Perrotta suggests Full Moon on Huron Avenue in Cambridge as the place to take the family. From sex guide to sex advice on Web Amber Madison (inset) will never be mistaken for Dr. Ruth Westheimer, but the 23-year-old Tufts grad has a similar gig. (Boston Globe)
Russia stakes its claim on North Pole in Jul 30, 2007
Robinson, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire. I support Russia's claim since their country is not run by lazy socialist do gooders, I want Russia's influence to grow. (Times Online)
Dodging deer, fighting fog, repairing roofs and doing Debs..Hurrah fer Da Fort! Jul 13, 2007
They were traveling east on 95, between Cambridge and North Branch when a buck leaped from the ditch, landed on the hood and bounced off the windshield. The collision caved the glass several inches. (Lindstrom Chisago County Press, MN)
CML hires new chief operating officer Jul 8, 2007
Cambridge Major Laboratories Friday announced the appointment of Dr. James Davidson as chief operating officer ... Prior to joining Cambridge Major Laboratories, Davidson spent 23 years in the pharmaceutical industry with Parke-Davis/Warner-Lambert and Pfizer, most recently as vice president of science and technology within the Pharmaceutical Sciences division of Pfizer ... "Jim represents the type of senior manager I've always been looking for", said Michael Major, president and chief executive... (Milwaukee Business Journal, WI)
Britain lowers terrorism threat level Jul 5, 2007
Shiraz Maher, a former member of a radical Islamic group, said he knew Abdulla at Cambridge University. "He was certainly very angry about what was happening in Iraq. ... He supported the insurgency in Iraq. He actively cheered the deaths of British and American troops in Iraq," Maher told British Broadcasting Corp.. (Brainerd Daily Dispatch)
Tiger's wife was in hospital during U.S. Open Jul 4, 2007
" Sam Alexis Woods was born in the early morning of June 18, the day after Woods tied for second with Jim Furyk behind U.S. Open champion Angel Cabrera. NHL / Oilers gripe about Nylander The Edmonton Oilers complained to the NHL that they had an agreement with free-agent center Michael Nylander before he signed with the Washington Capitals. The Oilers said in a statement Nylander had reached an agreement with them Sunday, only to then sign a $19.5 million, four-year contract with the Capitals... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Sports)
Jobs, Woz Visit Bay Area Apple Stores For iPhone Launch Jun 30, 2007
"I just love getting new stuff," said retiree Len Edgerly, who arrived at 3 a.m. Friday to be first in line outside an Apple store in Cambridge, Mass. "It's the best new thing that's come along in a long time. It's beautiful.". (NBC 11, CA)
Wallace’s White Dove Farm Provides Connection to Sheep and Wool Jun 29, 2007
The couple resides on a small, five and a half acre sheep farm named White Dove Farm, outside of Cambridge, and has for 21 years ... She gives farm tours at Hinchley s Dairy in Cambridge, and has for seven years. (Agri-View, WI)
Friday's Stocks to Watch Jun 22, 2007
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Almelund area farming dynasty honored as Chisago County Farm Family of Year Jun 22, 2007
She participated in the district's Post Secondary Enrollment Option at Cambridge Community College for the past two years and will have a head start on her nursing degree when she starts the RN program at Winona State University this fall. "I believe raising kids on the farm is a good lifestyle and teaches them work ethics," Marty said during the interview that included his dad, Ray Johnson. (Lindstrom Chisago County Press, MN)
Obituaries - 6/6/2007 Jun 7, 2007
Walt is survived by his children, Carol (Brian) Walberg, Stillwater, MN; Caren (Jim) Sundquist, Grantsburg; Don (Donna) Ostlund, Rush City, MN; Doug Ostlund and special friend Tracy, Rush City, MN; Chris (Scott) Jahnz, Pine City, MN; and Darryl Ostlund, Chaska, MN; grandchildren, Nicki (Willie) Driskill, Fridley, MN; Breanna Walberg, Stillwater, MN; Amy (Adam) Hale, Naples, FL; Sara (Matt) Moore, Glen Burnie, MD; Rebecca Sundquist, Grantsburg; Eric (Tammy) Ostlund, Cambridge, MN; Jennie Ostlund,... (Grantsburg Burnett County Sentinel, WI)
Men's Hockey Announces 2007-08 Recruiting Class May 18, 2007
spent three years with the Cambridge Winter Hawks in the Mid-Western Ontario Junior Hockey League and helped lead the squad to two Sutherland Cups in 2006-07 and 2005-06. The Kitchener, Ontario native amassed 19 goals and 41 assists in the 2006-07 campaign and tied for second in the league with 18 power-play goals while being named the MWJHL's Top Defenseman. (Wsuathletics.com)