By the CNN Wire Staff July 12, 2011 8:32 p.m. EDT (CNN) source article — Former first lady Betty Ford was rememberedTuesday as a woman whose disclosures about her personal battles showed courage and grace and brought encouragement to others. “She was a tireless advocate for those struggling,” said former first lady Rosalynn Carter. “She was never afraid to speak the truth.” Ford, who died Friday at age 93, raised awareness of issues involving women’s rights, cancer, alcoholism and substance abuse during and after her stint as first lady. Carter, close friends with Ford, also recalled their work together as advocates for those with mental illness. A former president and first ladies present…

Copyright ©2005 National Public Radio®. For personal, noncommercial use only. See Terms of Use. For other uses, prior permission required. Heard on Morning Edition May 9, 2005 – STEVE INSKEEP, host: This is MORNING EDITION from NPR News. I’m Steve Inskeep. For some months now, we’ve been recalling the achievements of Albert Einstein. It’s been 100 years since he published four scientific papers that altered our understanding of space and time. Historians call it his miracle year, 1905. That’s the history we know, but journalism requires that we check up on the conventional wisdom, which explains how one of our correspondents began asking if Albert Einstein was really all that smart.…

by RICHARD HARRIS March 17, 2005 One hundred years ago today, Albert Einstein finished a scientific paper that would change the world. His radical insight into the nature of light would help transform Einstein from an unknown patent clerk to the genius at the center of 20th-century physics. Scientists call 1905 Albert Einstein’s annus mirabilis — his year of miracles. Within a few months, Einstein wrote a series of papers that would transform the way we see the universe. They included his theory of special relativity and the famous equation E=mc². The first paper described his particle theory of light, which became one of the foundations of modern physics. Just…

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I am old enough to remember the good ole days of the old fashioned full service gas stations. Take a look at a photo gallery at Time Magazine of the history of gas stations. Getty Images Ardmore, Oklahoma, c. 1920 A group of attendants sit on one of the paved entrances to a station. Location Unknown, U.S., Circa 1926 The price on this pump works out to 17 cents per gallon.  Read More at Time Magazine http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,2082591_2292327,00.html