Word: graying
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When General Harrison Gray Otis acquired the Los Angeles Times in 1882, it was little more than a partisan, gossip-filled rag. Over the next century, his son-in-law Harry Chandler and his descendants shaped it into the well-respected newspaper it is today. From their humble beginnings, the Los Angeles Times and its parent Times Mirror Co. have grown into a media powerhouse with several publications and television stations under their control. But after the announcement March 13 that the Tribune Co., the owner of the Chicago Tribune and various other newspapers and television stations, will...
DIED. CHARLES GRAY, 71, actor who played James Bond's diabolical cat-stroking nemesis, Ernst Blofeld, in Diamonds Are Forever and the narrator in The Rocky Horror Picture Show; in London...
...sensors are doing," explains Nathan Lewis, the Caltech chemist who helped invent the sensor technology licensed by Cyrano and who has since continued his research independently. He compares the power of e-noses to the resolution of computer monitors: "Are you seeing the world in eight shades of gray or in 16 million colors...
Something was wrong with Amilya Antonetti's son David. She knew it shortly after arriving home from the hospital six years ago. "He never turned that pinkish color babies turn," she says. "He looked gray, and he would cry until he passed out." At first doctors thought David was colicky and that his crying spells would end. They didn't, and his doctors diagnosed asthma and severe allergies, but they still couldn't explain what was sending David to the emergency room. "We were in and out of the hospital, and we were losing him," says his 32-year...
Levin had previously said he would consider wearing pajamas to lecture, and he didn't disappoint, sporting matching plaid blue P.J.'s and gray bunny slippers...