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'Safer' test developed for Down's University test of DNA evidence in 18 pregnant women's blood correctly identified 9 cases of Down's syndrome
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| Sep.25 |
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Business School Dean To Step Down Robert Joss, who has held the job since 1999, said he would remain active in chairing the school's fundraising committee
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| Sep.1 |
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Univ. Rejects Pharmaceutical Co. Grants University's medical school will no longer accept money from pharmaceutical and medical device companies to fund programs in continuing education
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| Jun.15 |
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Oprah Speaks At Graduation
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| Mar.28 |
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Fall acceptance rate is a record low University is offering spots to 2,400 of the 25,298 prospective freshmen who applied for the coming fall, the lowest rate in the school's hi...
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 UC, Stanford to team up on stem cell UC Berkeley: Berkeley and Stanford are teaming up on a project to bring together doctors, biologists, chemists, engineers and computer scientists
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| Mar.10 |
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Computer w/sense of smell to be created Professor Rhodes, through his startup called Evolved Machines, is working on a process to reverse-engineer the brain
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| Jan.22 |
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Separated Costa Rican Twins To Go Home
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| Dec.25 |
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Genetic Screens Help Black And Hispanic
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| Dec.15 |
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Diane Middlebrook, biographer, dies. San Francisco
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| Dec.9 |
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Stanford to warehouse East Asian books
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| Nov.4 |
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Robo-car again wins the race
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| Oct.26 |
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Nobel Laureate Kornberg dies at 89
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| Oct.15 |
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Test developed to identify Alzheimer's Researchers have developed a potentially pathbreaking blood test that could help to identify patients with Alzheimer's disease
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| Sep.24 |
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Stanford Gets Tapes Of Intellectuals University announced the acquisition of historic recordings of Dalai Lama, Jiddu Krishnamurti, author Joseph Campbell and others
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| Sep.7 |
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 Rumsfeld heading to Hoover Institution The formersecretary of defense who resigned under fire, will be a visiting fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution
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| Jun.21 |
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BP Awards $7.5M To For Energy Research
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| Jun.10 |
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Philosopher Richard Rorty Dies At 75 Stanford University comparative literature professor was 75. His book 'Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature' rankled some of his peers
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| May.26 |
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University alarmed by 'student's' ruse Students expressed bewilderment and alarm at the revelation that a young woman was living for 8 months in two campus dormitories
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| May.24 |
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Student Impostor Unmasked| A young woman passed herself off as a student, talked her way into dormitories and lived on campus in the dorms for 8 months | |
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| May.18 |
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Faculty rejects ban on tobacco funds University's faculty has voted down, 21-10, a proposal that would have banned its scientists from accepting funds from the tobacco industry
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| Apr.17 |
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 'Ex-Terrorists' Hold Lecture Walid Shoebat and two others who call themselves former terrorists spoke at a controversial lecture admitting to participating in killings
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| Apr.8 |
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Stanford Close To A.I. Robots For Home
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| Apr.4 |
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Watzlawick, family therapy pioneer, dies. Palo Alto
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| Dec.19 |
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Wie accepted to Stanford
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| Dec.17 |
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Univ. Launches E. Coli Into Earth's Orbit Scientists believe studying the organism’s behavior may help determine the effect outer space conditions have on humans
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| Oct.4 |
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Professor Wins Nobel Prize In Chemistry Roger D. Kornberg, whose father won a Nobel Prize, was awarded for studies of how cells take information from genes
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| Oct.2 |
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Scientist Shares Nobel Prize In Medicine Professor of Pathology and Genetics Andrew Fire won the Prize for discovering a way to silence specific genes
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| Aug.1 |
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Nike Chairman Pledges $105 Million Phil Knight pledged the largest gift to a business school to help build $275 million graduate
business school campus
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| Feb.16 |
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Commerce secretary speaking to students
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| Jan.31 |
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Bush names Stanford professor
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| Jan.27 |
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New maternity policy
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| Nov.21 |
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Stem Cell Researchers Leave For Asia
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| Oct.30 |
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Universirty Gets Steinbeck's Nobel Medal
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| Oct.10 |
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University Wins Robot Car Challenge Diesel-powered, driverless Volkswagen Toureg won a $2 million desert race in Nevada
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| Jun.12 |
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Jobs Tells Graduates to Pursue Passions
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| May.28 |
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MBA Candidates Who Hacked - Rejected
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| Feb.24 |
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Girl Tastes Food For First Time In 8 Years Thanks to doctors, a little girl from England is catching up on 8 years with no junk food
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| Feb.17 |
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Tiny Miracle Baby Survives Heart Surgery
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| Sep.9 |
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Edward Teller, father of the H-bomb, dies| Teller played a key role in U.S. defense and energy policies for more than half a century. He was 95 | |
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| Jun.3 |
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Fasting students get support
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| Mar.4 |
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Salaries frozen to cope with deficit
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| Dec.19 |
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Stanford criticized over stem cell research
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| Dec.10 |
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Human embryonic stem cell project| University announced its intention to develop human embryonic stem cells through nuclear transfer technology | |
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| Oct.10 |
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2 Bay Areans win Nobel prizes| Economists George Akerlof, professor at UC Berkeley and Michael Spence of Stanford | |
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| Aug.31 |
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Donor withholds $60M from Stanford
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| May.19 |
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Online Luring
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| Nov.27 |
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2,000 acres keep from development
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| Apr.3 |
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Hennessy named as 10th president
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| 2008 |
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| Jun.15 |
Oprah Speaks At Graduation
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| Mar.28 |
Fall acceptance rate is a record low University is offering spots to 2,400 of the 25,298 prospective freshmen who applied for the coming fall, the lowest rate in the school's hi...
| 2007 |
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| Dec.9 |
Stanford to warehouse East Asian books
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| Sep.24 |
Stanford Gets Tapes Of Intellectuals University announced the acquisition of historic recordings of Dalai Lama, Jiddu Krishnamurti, author Joseph Campbell and others
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| Sep.7 |
Rumsfeld heading to Hoover Institution The formersecretary of defense who resigned under fire, will be a visiting fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution
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| Jun.21 |
BP Awards $7.5M To For Energy Research
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| May.26 |
University alarmed by 'student's' ruse Students expressed bewilderment and alarm at the revelation that a young woman was living for 8 months in two campus dormitories
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| May.24 |
Student Impostor Unmasked| A young woman passed herself off as a student, talked her way into dormitories and lived on campus in the dorms for 8 months | |
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| May.18 |
Faculty rejects ban on tobacco funds University's faculty has voted down, 21-10, a proposal that would have banned its scientists from accepting funds from the tobacco industry
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| Apr.17 |
'Ex-Terrorists' Hold Lecture Walid Shoebat and two others who call themselves former terrorists spoke at a controversial lecture admitting to participating in killings
| 2006 |
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| Dec.19 |
Wie accepted to Stanford
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| Aug.1 |
Nike Chairman Pledges $105 Million Phil Knight pledged the largest gift to a business school to help build $275 million graduate
business school campus
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| Feb.16 |
Commerce secretary speaking to students
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| Jan.31 |
Bush names Stanford professor
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| Jan.27 |
New maternity policy
| 2005 |
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| Oct.30 |
Universirty Gets Steinbeck's Nobel Medal
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| Jun.12 |
Jobs Tells Graduates to Pursue Passions
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| May.28 |
MBA Candidates Who Hacked - Rejected
| 2003 |
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| Jun.3 |
Fasting students get support
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| Mar.4 |
Salaries frozen to cope with deficit
| 2001 |
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| Oct.10 |
2 Bay Areans win Nobel prizes| Economists George Akerlof, professor at UC Berkeley and Michael Spence of Stanford | |
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| Aug.31 |
Donor withholds $60M from Stanford
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| May.19 |
Online Luring
| 2000 |
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| Nov.27 |
2,000 acres keep from development
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| Apr.3 |
Hennessy named as 10th president
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| 2008 |
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| Mar.10 |
Computer w/sense of smell to be created Professor Rhodes, through his startup called Evolved Machines, is working on a process to reverse-engineer the brain
| 2007 |
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| Nov.4 |
Robo-car again wins the race
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| Apr.8 |
Stanford Close To A.I. Robots For Home
| 2005 |
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| Oct.10 |
University Wins Robot Car Challenge Diesel-powered, driverless Volkswagen Toureg won a $2 million desert race in Nevada
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| 2008 |
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| Mar.12 |
UC, Stanford to team up on stem cell UC Berkeley: Berkeley and Stanford are teaming up on a project to bring together doctors, biologists, chemists, engineers and computer scientists
| 2005 |
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| Nov.21 |
Stem Cell Researchers Leave For Asia
| 2002 |
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| Dec.19 |
Stanford criticized over stem cell research
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| 2008 |
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| Sep.25 |
Business School Dean To Step Down Robert Joss, who has held the job since 1999, said he would remain active in chairing the school's fundraising committee
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| 2006 |
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| Oct.4 |
Professor Wins Nobel Prize In Chemistry Roger D. Kornberg, whose father won a Nobel Prize, was awarded for studies of how cells take information from genes
| 2002 |
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| Dec.10 |
Human embryonic stem cell project| University announced its intention to develop human embryonic stem cells through nuclear transfer technology | |
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| 2008 |
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| Oct.6 |
'Safer' test developed for Down's University test of DNA evidence in 18 pregnant women's blood correctly identified 9 cases of Down's syndrome
| Scientists have figured out a way to test for major chromosomal defects using a simple blood test
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| Sep.1 |
Univ. Rejects Pharmaceutical Co. Grants University's medical school will no longer accept money from pharmaceutical and medical device companies to fund programs in continuing education
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| Jan.22 |
Separated Costa Rican Twins To Go Home
| 2007 |
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| Dec.25 |
Genetic Screens Help Black And Hispanic
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| Oct.15 |
Test developed to identify Alzheimer's Researchers have developed a potentially pathbreaking blood test that could help to identify patients with Alzheimer's disease
| 2006 |
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| Dec.17 |
Univ. Launches E. Coli Into Earth's Orbit Scientists believe studying the organism’s behavior may help determine the effect outer space conditions have on humans
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| Oct.2 |
Scientist Shares Nobel Prize In Medicine Professor of Pathology and Genetics Andrew Fire won the Prize for discovering a way to silence specific genes
| 2005 |
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| Feb.24 |
Girl Tastes Food For First Time In 8 Years Thanks to doctors, a little girl from England is catching up on 8 years with no junk food
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| Feb.17 |
Tiny Miracle Baby Survives Heart Surgery
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| 2007 |
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| Dec.15 |
Diane Middlebrook, biographer, dies. San Francisco
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| Oct.26 |
Nobel Laureate Kornberg dies at 89
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| Jun.10 |
Philosopher Richard Rorty Dies At 75 Stanford University comparative literature professor was 75. His book 'Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature' rankled some of his peers
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| Apr.4 |
Watzlawick, family therapy pioneer, dies. Palo Alto
| 2003 |
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| Sep.9 |
Edward Teller, father of the H-bomb, dies| Teller played a key role in U.S. defense and energy policies for more than half a century. He was 95 | |
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