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Students In Enfield Don't Agree On Graduation Site
The Hartford CourantA recent poll found that Enrico Fermi High School students want to graduate at First Cathedral in Bloomfield, but Enfield High School students would rather graduate at their school. Though the schools were divided, the same number of votes were tallied...Tags: Schools, High Schools, Polls, Elementary Schools, Enfield
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Poll On Enfield Graduation Site; Suffield Considers Growth Issues
An East Windsor man who is a registered sex offender has been arrested on new sexual assault charges. Suffield residents want growth without upsetting town character. Athletic Hall of Fame inductees in Suffield and Windsor Locks. Students in Enfield...Tags: Healthcare Provider, Sexual Assault, Connecticut Economic Development, Economic Policy, Bankruptcy
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Pioneering nuclear physicist at Argonne
Special to the TribuneWhile scientific research performed during the Manhattan Project led to the first nuclear reactor and changed the course of history in World War II, perhaps few outside the world of physics know what came next. Enter Roy Ringo. An unassuming doctoral...Tags: Los Angeles, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Defense, Applied Physics, Death and Dying
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Enfield Board Polling Students About Site For Graduation
The Hartford CourantThe board of education has decided to ask students whether they would prefer having their graduations at their high school or at First Cathedral in Bloomfield. The board decided to poll students after town residents criticized board members for their...Tags: Schools, High Schools
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Week In Review: Scandals, Budget Top Political Scene
The presidential campaign and hundreds of local races entered their final laps last week as the news filled with stories of politics and those who play it. State Rep. George Wilber called off his bid for re-election Monday after news surfaced of a $100,...Tags: Bill Cosby, Middletown, Crimes, Cheshire, Connecticut
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University of Chicago physicist Yoichiro Nambu wins Nobel Prize
Chicago Tribune reporterAfter emerging as a young man from the chaos of World War II in Japan, University of Chicago physicist Yoichiro Nambu found order in the idea that our imperfect world contains deep and hidden symmetries, which await only the right mind to reveal them....Tags: Applied Physics, Awards and Prizes, Family, Applied Science, Batavia
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Obama blames GOP energy policies for economic woes
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio - Democrat Barack Obama blamed Republican energy policies for some of the nation's economic woes yesterday as his GOP rival John McCain advocated a large expansion of nuclear power. Obama told an audience in a Youngstown, Ohio, high...Tags: Economic Policy, Defense, Upstream Oil and Gas Activities, Political Candidates, Natural Resources
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'Proud Of Her Work On The Manhattan Project'
Special to The Courant"Extraordinary Life" looks back each Sunday on someone whose life made a difference. Alice Kimball graduated from MIT at a time when most prestigious men's colleges did not accept women. She majored in chemistry, worked on developing the atomic bomb as a...Tags: Riverdale (Bronx, New York), Roxbury, Defense, Death and Dying, Awards and Prizes
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Birth of the Atomic Age
Tribune staff reporterAfter months of preliminary work, the scientists at the University of Chicago's new Metallurgical Laboratory were ready to run their first experiment. The experiment did not involve metallurgy. In fact, there were no metallurgists in the Metallurgical...Tags: Squash, Nuclear Power, University of Chicago, Death and Dying, Athletics, Track and Field
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Chicago connections abundant in 'Dr. Atomic'
Tribune arts criticThe date Dec. 2, 1942, in Chicago was a dark, cold day, to borrow from W.H. Auden's great elegy on Yeats -- arctic in temperature and deadly in significance. Ace researchers gathered in a squash court beneath the west stands of Stagg Field, the...Tags: Squash, Defense, Theater, Applied Science, Ceremonies
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Stanley Miller, 77; chemist was a pioneer in studying the origins of life
Times Staff WriterStanley Miller, the UC San Diego chemist who was the first to demonstrate that the organic molecules necessary for life could be generated in a laboratory flask simulating the primitive Earth's atmosphere, died Sunday from heart failure in a hospital in...Tags: Weather Reports, Newspaper and Magazine, Death and Dying, San Diego (San Diego, California), University of Chicago
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Belmont: The Bronx's true Little Italy
Special to amNewYorkAnyone in the know will tell you the "real" Little Italy isn't on Mulberry Street, but in the Bronx. Belmont, a sliver of land just south of Fordham University, has stayed remarkably stable since Italian immigrants began flocking there in the early...Tags: Chazz Palminteri, Crimes, Theft, Sales, Gardens and Parks
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