French tennis player Nathalie Dechy is retiring to concentrate on her family life.
The French tennis federation said in a statement Tuesday that the 30-year-old Dechy has decided to end her career as she is expecting a child.
Dechy reached the Australian Open semifinals in 2005, but is currently ranked …
NEW YORK South Africa's best known musicians, singer MiriamMakeba and trumpeter Hugh Masekela, cast their votes Tuesday in theircountry's election under billowing tents set up on the grounds of theUnited Nations.
"It's the most beautiful day of my life - aside from the factsome of my people are dying," said Makeba, 62, who has been in exilefor three decades and whose powerful, …
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran on Wednesday said 18 members of the powerful Revolutionary Guard were killed in an explosion that struck the force's base in the country's west a day earlier.
The state IRNA news agency said 14 other Guard troops were wounded in Tuesday's blast in the city of Khoramabad, some 300 miles (500 kilometers) southwest of the capital, Tehran. The injured were taken to hospitals in Khoramabad.
The report said the blast was caused by a fire that had reached the ammunition storage area, but there was no word on what had ignited the blaze. In their first reports of the blast late Tuesday, most Iranian media said the explosion was an accident.
Although …
All Times EDT
FIRST ROUND
(Best-of-7)
EASTERN CONFERENCE
New Jersey vs. Philadelphia
Wednesday, April 14
Philadelphia 2, New Jersey 1
Friday, April 16
New Jersey 5, Philadelphia 3
Sunday, April 18
Philadelphia 3, New Jersey 2, OT
Tuesday, April 20
Philadelphia 4, New Jersey 1
Thursday, April 22
Philadelphia 3, New Jersey 0, Philadelphia wins series 4-1
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Buffalo vs. Boston
Thursday, April 15
Buffalo 2, Boston 1
Saturday, April 17
Boston 5, Buffalo 3
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London . . .
Prince Charles got gobsmacked!
A clash of diary dates on the royal calendar caused a nightmarefor Charles when the Vatican decided to conduct Pope John Paul II'sfuneral on his wedding day!
Not since Britain's King Henry VIII severed his ties to Rome whenthe pope refused to grant him a divorce has the papacy given theBritish royal family such a headache.
It's no secret the heir to the British throne's marriage todivorcee Camilla Parker Bowles has become a catalog of crises and alitany of disasters, but the pope's death might be the worst yet.
To wit: The Vatican's decision to conduct the papal funeral Fridayresulted in Prince Charles …
ABSTRACT When a single molecule of double-stranded DNA is stretched beyond its B-form contour length, the measured force shows a highly cooperative overstretching transition. We have measured the force at which this transition occurs as a function of temperature. To do this, single molecules of DNA were captured between two polystyrene beads in an optical tweezers apparatus. As the temperature of the solution surrounding a captured molecule was increased from 11degC to 52degC in 500 mM NaCl, the overstretching transition force decreased from 69 pN to 50 pN. This reduction is attributed to a decrease in the stability of the DNA double helix with increasing temperature. These results …
AT&T Inc. says that the new flagship BlackBerry model that was initially expected this summer, the Bold 9000, will go on sale Nov. 4.
Ralph de la Vega, head of AT&T's consumer business, supplied the launch date on the company's third-quarter earnings conference call Wednesday.
When BlackBerry manufacturer Research in Motion Ltd. revealed the model in …
