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For Pioneering Black Theater, A Season

" In 1959, Lorraine Hansberry's long-running family drama A Raisin in the Sun brought together an ensemble of African-American artists — Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee and Louis Gossett Jr. among them — on...

created by 158 | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
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Ultra-Sensitive Robotic Arm: Upgrade for Disabled Vets

This has just been announced, so I have no further details. Dean Kamen is known as the inventor of the anticlimactic Segway; this invention seems far, far more impressive. The device was tested at Walter Reed Medical Center, the center of the maelstrom at the moment for...

created by Jordan Yerman | 2 years ago
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Winfrey chooses Sidney Poitier memoir

"Oprah Winfrey turned to an old acquaintance and personal idol for her first new book club choice since the James Frey scandal a year ago, announcing Friday that she had selected Sidney Poitier's "The Measure of a...