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December 2004

WorldJailed Palestinian Militant Announces Candidacy (Dec. 1): Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti says he will run for the presidency of the Palestinian Authority, challenging former prime…

The 2004 Class of Inductees

Frederick Banting, 1891–1941, Charles Best, 1899–1978, James Collip, 1892–1965, Purified Insulin. Canadian scientists Banting, Best, and Collip determined that insulin injections would help…

Entertainment News from November 2000

1NBC cancels Deadline, a high-profile drama about a crusading columnist played by Oliver Platt. The journalism drama starred several film actors, including Platt, Hope Davis, Lili Taylor, and…

Poincaré Conjecture

A million-dollar math problem by Borgna Brunner Henri Poincar© posed his famously bedeviling math problem more than a century ago. The Clay Institute's Millennium Problems Birch and…

Brewer's: Thaumaturgus

A miracle-worker; applied to saints and others who are reputed to have performed miracles. (Greek, thauma ergon.) Prince Alexander of IIohenlohe, whose power was looked upon as miraculous…

Biographies: A -C

Alvar Aalto Iorwith Wilbur Abel Sir Patrick Abercrombie Henry Carter Adams Alexander Agassiz Horace Marden Albright Maurice Allais Sir Hugh Allan Linda Alvarado Oakes Ames Othmar Hermann…