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Tuesday Jun 30 | KQED

New Nanoparticles Shed Light on Cell Behavior

A cell imaged with an optical microscope. The same cell imaged by allowing the cell to absorb UCNPs and then irradiating it with infrared light.

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Related Topix: Vocal

Wed Jun 03, 2009

TheDailyBeast.com

The Literary Life

This week, Sara Nelson returns from Book Expo where the Michael Crichton tribute was moving, Lorrie Moore overcame her fear of public speaking, and Craig Ferguson stole the show.

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Related Topix: Vocal, Drink, Cocktails

Sun May 03, 2009

The Glittering Eye

The Best Movies About Plagues

If you haven't noticed there is a decidedly ghoulish side to my personality that comes out every so often.

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Related Topix: Thriller, Mystery Movies, The Andromeda Strain, Science Fiction Movies, Vocal, Film Noir, Panic in the Streets, Crime Movies, Drama Movies, Vincent Price

Fri May 01, 2009

Great Falls Tribune

Dip into 'State of Fear' for global warming answers

In an Edge item in Saturday's Tribune Viewpoints page, the headline asked, 'What to believe?' The quandary, it seemed, stemmed from record-breaking temperatures on the West Coast versus news from an Australian paper that the ice in Antarctica is increasing rather than decreasing as recent American news sources have been saying.

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Related Topix: Global Warming, Vocal, Science / Technology, NASA, Columbia University, California

Wed Apr 29, 2009

Writer's Digest

Michael Crichton's Top 5 Writing Lessons

Karen Dionne, author of Freezing Point, reveals what her late hero, Michael Crichton, taught her about crafting solid fiction.

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Related Topix: Thriller, The Andromeda Strain, Mystery Movies, Science Fiction Movies, Vocal

Fri Apr 10, 2009

Press of Atlantic City

ShortList

Two new Michael Crichton novels, one of them unfinished, have been scheduled for release.

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Related Topix: Vocal

Wed Apr 08, 2009

Book trade news from Book2book

Posthumous Crichton Novels On The Way

Michael Crichton, the best-selling author of technological thrillers like "The Andromeda Strain" and "Jurassic Park" who died of cancer in November, left behind at least one finished novel and about one-third of a second.

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Related Topix: Thriller, The Andromeda Strain, Mystery Movies, Science Fiction Movies, Vocal

Tue Apr 07, 2009

The First Post

Michael Crichton is back from the dead

Thriller writer Michael Crichton is back from the dead. Or, to be precise, two new novels have been found on the computer of the novelist who died from cancer last November and one is to be published before Christmas this year and the other in 2010.

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Related Topix: Entertainment, Drama, Television, Thriller, Mystery Movies, The Andromeda Strain, Science Fiction Movies, Vocal

Mon Apr 06, 2009

WTOP

2 posthumous Michael Crichton releases planned

In this Dec. 7, 2004 file photo, author Michael Crichton poses at The Peninsula Hotel in New York.

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Publishers Weekly

The PW Morning Report, April 6, 2009

Charles R. Nesson of Harvard Law School Rupert Murdoch's Kindle Envy All Things Digital is reporting that Murdoch is interested in investing in his own version of the Kindle.

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Related Topix: Australia, World News, Thriller, The Andromeda Strain, Mystery Movies, Science Fiction Movies, Vocal

Thu Apr 02, 2009

BuddyTV

ER: Series Finale Preview

ER says goodbye to its fans tonight, marking an end to an era for NBC as it tries to adapt to a time where unscripted shows have rapidly taken over the TV circuit.

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Related Topix: Drama, Short, Comedy Movies, Er, Entertainment, Television, Soap Opera, Comedy, ER, General Hospital, Vocal

Tue Mar 31, 2009

Free Republic

Bomb squad investigating dummy in Kenmore Square

At a Kenmore store....I guess dryers and dishwashers are to blame for global warming now.

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Fri Feb 27, 2009

WHNS

Superbug Or False Alarm?

In 1994, a bestseller titled "The Hot Zone" sparked national interest in "superbugs," viruses and bacteria against which the human body is nearly defenseless and for which no effective treatment exist.

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Related Topix: Thriller, Mystery Movies, The Andromeda Strain, Science Fiction Movies, Vocal, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Fri Feb 13, 2009

The New Hampshire

Review: Ghost in the Shell

For as long as I can remember, science fiction has been associated with the nerdier segments of society.

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Related Topix: Thriller, The Andromeda Strain, Mystery Movies, Science Fiction Movies, Vocal

Thu Jan 29, 2009

Philly.com

Tattle: Amy Fisher looks forward to porn career

A MY FISHER wants people to know that she's not the same girl who shot her lover's wife in the face 16 years ago.

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Related Topix: Video Games, Vocal

Tue Jan 27, 2009

Investor's Business Daily

Adventures In Popular Fiction

In business, some say with pride that they swim with the sharks. Author Michael Crichton swam with sharks too.

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Related Topix: Arts, Popular Fiction, Vocal, Theater, Emmy Awards, Entertainment, Television, Opinion

Fri Jan 16, 2009

The Scotsman

Free books to boost reading across UK

MORE than 200,000 copies of a book by the creator of Sherlock Holmes will be distributed free in Edinburgh and four other British cities as part of a new reading campaign.

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Related Topix: Europe, World News, United Kingdom, Action, Adventure, Science Fiction Movies, The Lost World, Vocal, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Arthur Conan Doyle

Thu Jan 15, 2009

Reason Magazine

Scion of Frankenstein

Michael Crichton supplied Hollywood with a series of hits, and he created the hospital drama E.R. , one of the most successful TV shows of the last two decades.

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Related Topix: Thriller, The Andromeda Strain, Mystery Movies, Science Fiction Movies, Vocal, Mary Shelley, Dinosaur, Science, Paleontology

Tue Jan 13, 2009

Domestic Fuel

Book Review - Storm World by Chris Mooney

"There are many reasons to shift away from fossil fuels, and we will do so in the next century without legislation, financial incentives, carbon-conservation programs, or the interminable yammering of ...

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Related Topix: Hurricane, Natural Disasters, Global Warming, Vocal, Meteorology, Science

Mon Jan 05, 2009

Naperville Sun

Five questions with a singer

Sometimes a single action can completely change the course of a person's life. In Randy Stine's case, it was posting on YouTube in 2007 clips from an almost 10-year-old Christmas concert featuring his college a ...

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Related Topix: Thriller, Crime Movies, Action, The Dark Knight, Comedy, Entertainment, Television, Vocal, Life, Food, Pizza, Naperville, IL

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