Cambridge (England)

Kate and Will are pregnant

2012-12-03 16:47:58

I was giving a speech once to a group of career women who had decided to be stay-at-home moms, and I was waiting to be introduced when I overheard an animated conversation between two of them. "So, the doctor said she could have a serving of grapes,...

Former Islamic jihadist teaches Middle Eastern politics at Washington College

2012-04-14 13:11:00

Shiraz Maher went to the mosque in search of answers. Why, he wanted to know, had 15 young men from Saudi Arabia, the country where he spent most of his childhood, just crashed jetliners into prominent U.S. buildings? The men who gave him clarity wore...

Maryland's most royal sites

2011-06-30 08:20:00

When the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge visit the United States as part of their forthcoming North American tour, no doubt their host city of Los Angeles will provide plenty of pomp and circumstance. Yet Marylanders could show Will and Kate a jolly good...

Tubman, Oakley are good reasons to visit Cambridge

2004-03-25 00:00:00

As Women's History Month draws to a close, visitors to the Cambridge and Bucktown area of Dorchester County can explore the lives of two Eastern Shore women who became legends of American and Maryland history: Harriet Tubman and Annie Oakley. Tubman's...

Race to the double helix took many twists, turns

2003-02-23 00:00:00

About noon on Feb. 28, 1953, two men burst into their favorite pub, a scruffy spot called The Eagle near their Cambridge University laboratory. As people sipped their beers and forked down shepherd's pie, one of the men gleefully announced: "We have...

Drawn to the Shore

2004-01-25 00:00:00

The Eastern Shore and art? To most outsiders, that usually means only one thing: ducks. Duck paintings. Duck sculptures. Duck decoys. But look beyond the surface and you'll discover a region that's redefining itself -- quite rightly -- as a serious arts...

AstraZeneca closes in on site for new home in Cambridge

2013-05-20 07:24:03

* Drugmaker eyes Cambridge Biomedical Campus - sources * Relocation centrepiece of new CEO's restructuring plan * New research centre and corporate HQ to cost some $500 mln By Ben Hirschler and Tom Bill LONDON, May 20 (Reuters) - AstraZeneca is...

Salman Rushdie bequeaths 'Midnight's Children' to film

2013-05-05 07:00:00

In the late 1970s, long before he penned "The Satanic Verses," before he sparked a global uproar between Islamic fundamentalists and free-speech advocates and became a marked man, before he turned into a celebrity man of letters who dates models and...

Cambridge DNA whisperers

2013-04-25 00:00:00

Cambridge-based Gen9 has landed another $21 million to keep pushing the limits of synthetic biology, a cutting-edge field where scientists "play God" by creating customized DNA -- the building blocks of life -- for a variety of different industries....

Three under investigation in France over topless Kate photos

2013-04-24 12:58:02

PARIS, April 24 (Reuters) - The editor of a French celebrity magazine was placed under formal investigation for breach of privacy over the publication of topless pictures of Britain's Duchess of Cambridge, a judicial source said on Wednesday. The...

Robert Edwards dies at 87; Nobel winner for first 'test-tube baby'

2013-04-10 14:13:00

About 10% of married couples suffer from infertility – the inability to conceive a child naturally. Through the better part of the 20th century, physicians considered this a minor and perhaps irrelevant problem, one that contributed overall to...

Scientists find new gene markers for cancer risk

2013-03-27 14:27:00

NEW YORK (AP) — A huge international effort involving more than 100 institutions and genetic tests on 200,000 people has uncovered dozens of signposts in DNA that can help reveal further a person's risk for breast, ovarian or prostate cancer,...

Britain's Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, attends the National Review of Queen's Scouts at Windsor Castle in Berkshire on April 21, 2013. The duchess attended the event in place of Queen Elizabeth II, who was celebrating her 87th birthday privately.

2013-04-21 00:00:00

Britain's Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, holds on to Britain's Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, as she tries to release her shoe that was stuck in the grate during St Patrick's Day parade in Mons Barracks in Aldershot.

2013-03-17 00:00:00

GRIMSBY, ENGLAND - MARCH 05: Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge meets residence of nearby St.Andrews Hospice as she visits Humberside Fire and Rescue Peaks Lane Fire Station on March 5, 2013 in Grimsby, England. (Photo Bruce Adams - WPA Pool/Getty Images) ORG XMIT: 163233094

2013-03-05 00:00:00