Nobel winners map the sense of smell in prize win
Two Americans, Dr Richard Axel of Columbia University and Linda Buck of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, won the Nobel Prize in medicine for revealing odor sensing proteins in the nose and how brain signals identify about 350 to 400 odor receptors. The award, worth 1.3 million dollars, honors a discovery linking scent to memory and perception and may influence future research from psychology to pest control.
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Columbia University
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Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
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Nobel Assembly
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Stockholm
Sweden
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Axel
Norway
Swedish Academy
Nobel
Florida governor appeals ruling over Schiavo case
Gov. Jeb Bush will ask the Florida Supreme Court to reconsider its 7-0 ruling against a law to keep Terri Schiavo alive. The high court said the state overstepped its authority in ordering her feeding tube reinsertion after it had been removed by her husband.
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Florida Supreme Court
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Mary Schindler
Clearwater
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Death of Gordon Cooper distant Mercury seven astronaut
Gordon Cooper, youngest of the original Mercury astronauts and holder of an endurance space record, died at 77 in Ventura. He piloted Faith 7 in 1963 circling Earth 22 times, then set a 190 hour Gemini 5 flight with Charles Conrad, pushing U.S. lead in space exploration. Cooper’s legacy and humor were famed in The Right Stuff and NASA tributes.
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Wally Schirra
Virgil
Gus” Grissom
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Deke” Slayton
Alan Shepard Jr
Tobacco trial setback as witness disputes destruction claim
In a Washington racketeering case against major cigarette makers, attorney Robert Northrip denied government's claim he knew of document destruction in an Australian BAT subsidiary case. Northrip testified he first heard of the allegations publicly and filed a court document refuting the speculation.
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Justice Department
Robert Northrip
Australia
British American Tobacco Co., PLC
Northrip
David Bernick
Brown and Williamson Tobacco Corp
BATCO
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