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NEWS ABOUT: Cambridge

Cambridge stories: 14 news summaries

(Newser) - Turns out the president was right: the beer summit was pretty boring. In fact, it wasn't even the first time Skip Gates and Officer Crowley had gotten together after the arrest. "Even before we sat down for the beer, I learned that the two gentlemen spent some time together... More »

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police • race relations • Cambridge • President Obama • Henry Louis Gates Jr • Cambridge, Mass. • James Crowley

Boston Cop Suspended
After Racial Slur on Gates

Calls him 'jungle monkey' in email

Jul 29, 09 5:54 PM CDT
(Newser) - The fallout from the Henry Louis Gates arrest continues: A Boston cop has been suspended for referring to Gates as a "jungle monkey" in an email, the Globe reports. Officer Justin Barrett, 36, faces a disciplinary hearing next week and could be fired. He used the phrase while describing... More »

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Boston • race relations • Cambridge • racial slurs • Boston Police Department • Henry Louis Gates Jr • James Crowley

(Newser) - Henry Louis Gates is upset about his arrest, in which he sees wide implications and a potential "teachable moment." The Harvard professor talks it over with the Daily Beast in the person of Elizabeth Gates, who happens to be his daughter:
  • On the police: "I’m
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Cambridge • racism • arrest • racial profiling • police department • Harvard University • Henry Louis Gates Jr • Skip Gates • Elizabeth Gates • black people

NYC Man Pleads Not Guilty in Harvard Shooting

Cops: Suspect aimed to rob drug dealer

May 22, 09 5:38 PM CDT
(AP) - A New York songwriter pleaded not guilty today to murder charges in the shooting at a Harvard dormitory of a man prosecutors say was there to sell drugs. Jabrai Jordan Copney, 20, whose girlfriend is a Harvard senior, traveled to the Cambridge, Mass., campus on Monday with two other men... More »

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crime • Cambridge • drug dealer • campus shooting • Harvard University • Jabrai Jordan Copney • Justin Cosby

UK Charges
Wen Jibao's Shoe-Tosser

Faces public disorder charge; China sweeps incident under rug

Feb 3, 09 6:13 AM CST
(Newser) - The Cambridge University protester who yesterday chucked a gray sneaker at the Chinese premier—and missed by a solid 3 feet—has been slapped with a public disorder charge for his trouble, reports the Telegraph. The 27-year-old will appear in British court next Tuesday. China voiced its continued ire over... More »

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China • shoes • Cambridge • Wen Jiabao • Britain • political protest • protesters

 UK Protester 
 Lobs Shoe 
 at China's Wen 

Protester calls premier a 'dictator' during speech at Cambridge

Feb 2, 09 1:35 PM CST
(Newser) - A protester threw a shoe at China’s premier while he was giving a speech at Cambridge University in England today, the BBC reports. The young man shouted “how can the university prostrate itself with this dictator—how can you listen to the lies he’s telling?" before hurling... More »

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China • shoes • protests • Cambridge • dictatorship • Wen Jiabao • Britain • Cambridge University

UK Mailman
Maimed by Rottweilers

Passerby clubbed, drove over dogs; may have saved man's arm

Dec 23, 08 2:29 PM CST
(Newser) - A British mailman suffered serious injuries when he was mauled by rottweilers while delivering Christmas cards yesterday, the Times of London reports. The two dogs ripped his arm, and bit his back and legs, until a passerby intervened, clubbing the canines with an iron bar and running over one with... More »

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Cambridge • attack • Britain • Royal Mail • dog • post office • rottweiler

Colleges Seek Kids' Opinions on Grapefruit, Perfect Crime

Quirky questions catch students off-guard

Dec 9, 08 12:34 PM CST
(Newser) - Bored with prospective students regurgitating textbook knowledge, Cambridge and Oxford have revamped their interview questions to include the abstract (Would you rather be a novel or a poem?), the existential (What does it mean to be happy?), and the downright crazy (How would you poison someone and get away with... More »

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college admissions • Cambridge • Oxford • private schools • interview • college preparation

 New Clock Messes With Time 


Sep 20, 08 8:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - Here's something different in a timepiece: It has no hands. It's actually designed to run in erratic fashion, slowing down and speeding up from time to time. It aims to disorient and dazzle, to remind people of their mortality and to pay tribute to one of the most famous watchmakers... More »

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Stephen Hawking • Cambridge • clock • John Taylor • Corpus clock

Broad Donates $400M for Gene Research

Record gift helps Harvard/MIT venture
get to root of disease

Sep 4, 08 3:08 PM CDT
(Newser) - Eli and Edythe Broad plan to donate $400 million more to the Massachusetts foundation they started 4 years ago to research the genetic causes of disease, the Boston Globe reports. “It's the biggest investment we've ever made,” said Broad, whose gift to the joint Harvard/MIT venture is the... More »

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philanthropy • Eli Broad • Cambridge • human genome • genetic research • endowment • Broad Institute • Edythe Broad

At Old School, New Tricks

Undergrads moonlight as hookers, strippers, and essay writers
to foot tuition

Oct 10, 07 2:35 PM CDT
(Newser) - Cambridge University students who turn tricks, strip, and sell essays to pay their rising tuition costs have Britain atwitter, following a student newspaper's exposé. One undergrad slept with 40 to 50 men in a space of two months, counting other students among her clients, reports Varsity, duly noting... More »

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prostitution • Cambridge • university

Cops Bust Two-Bit Thief With 123 Parking Meters

Ca-ching! Heads found stashed in home

Oct 5, 07 5:03 AM CDT
(Newser) - Police arrested a Massachusetts man after discovering 123 parking meter heads stashed in his closets and under his bed. Parking officials had been seeking the culprit cutting the coin-filled tops off meters all over Cambridge for the past year, but he was caught by accident when police came to his... More »

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theft • Cambridge • parking meters

New 'Lucky' System Takes Clearest-Ever Space Pics

Images are twice as sharp as Hubble's

Sep 4, 07 3:42 AM CDT
(Newser) - A ground-based optics system has been developed that can take pictures of space twice as sharp as those from the Hubble Telescope. The system uses advanced light detection chips and calculates when the atmosphere is least distorting, the BBC reports. The system gathers together the clear pictures and eliminates distortions... More »

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astronomy • Hubble • space • Cambridge • Palomar • Caltech • Lucky

Mouse Stem
Cell Discovery Speeds Cures

'Missing link' embryonic cell boosts fight against Parkinsons, diabetes

Jun 28, 07 4:29 AM CDT
(Newser) - British scientists have discovered a new type of stem cell in mice that's much closer to human embryonic stem cells, making them invaluable in the search for cures for diseases like Parkinson's and diabetes. Two independent teams from Oxford and Cambridge today revealed the "missing link" cells, which can... More »

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stem cell research • disease • stem cells • science • mice • cells • Parkinson's disease • epiblast • Cambridge • Oxford

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