May 2, 2011 By Catherine Lutz A SINGULAR WOMAN The Untold Story of Barack Obama’s Mother By Janny Scott Illustrated. 376 pages. Riverhead Books. $26.95. Pieces of the story of Ann Dunham, the mother of Barack Obama, we know already. A “white woman from Kansas,” as he referred to her at the Democratic convention in 2008, who married an African intellectual and had a son with him. A strict mother who roused that son before dawn to study. An anthropologist who spent years studying in Indonesian villages, several of those years without her son. A 52-year-old woman whose last year before succumbing to cancer was spent in part trying to…

May 4, 2011 By DENNIS OVERBYE In a tour de force of technology and just plain stubbornness spanning half a century and costing more than $750 million, a team of experimenters from Stanford University reported on Wednesday that a set of orbiting gyroscopes had detected a slight sag and an even slighter twist in space-time. The finding confirms some of the weirdest of the many strange predictions — like black holes and the expanding universe — of Albert Einstein’s theory of gravity, general relativity. “We have completed this landmark experiment of testing Einstein’s universe,” Francis Everitt, leader of the project, known as Gravity Probe B, said at a news conference…

Published: MAY 2, 2011 The Secret Unit That Killed Bin Laden Sources are reporting that Osama bin Laden, the Al-Qaeda leader who avoided capture for nearly a decade after engineering the attacks of September 11, 2001, was killed by an elite counterterrorism unit of the U.S. military known as DevGru. Find out more about the origins and past operations of these highly trained Navy SEALs. A Navy SEAL observes enemy movements. (Credit: Getty Images) Originally known as SEAL Team Six, the United States Naval Special Warfare Development Group (DevGru) is one of several publicly disclosed units under the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), an elite and highly classified group that…

*Transcript of Recipe: George Washington’s Beer Recipe (Note: Following this recipe exactly will result in a beer with an alcohol content of about 11 percent — making it at least twice as potent as most of today’s commercially brewed domestic beers.) To Make Small Beer: Take a large siffer full of bran hops to your taste-boil these 3 hours. Then strain our 30 gall[o]n into a cooler put in 3 gall[o]n molasses while the beer is scalding hot or rather draw the molasses into the cooler. Strain the beer on it while boiling hot, let this stand till it is little more than blood warm. Then put in a quart…

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