Has The Last Typewriter Factory Closed? Not Really April 26, 2011 by MARK MEMMOTT EnlargeFox Photos/Getty ImagesA Remington International, circa 1961. Way back when we first got into the reporting business, an editor (or perhaps several), said that you’d better be absolutely, positively sure if you ever use phrases like “best ever” or “last ever” or “only one in the world.” You’re almost surely going to be proved wrong, the crusty old newshounds would say. Well, when we saw the Daily Mail headline declaring that the “Last Typewriter Factory Left In The World Closes Its Doors,” we were suspicious. And there was this nagging feeling that we knew that wasn’t right. Well, we…

in full Catherine Elizabeth Middleton ( April 25, 2011) With the royal wedding just days away, Prince William and Kate Middleton’s ceremony has come under increasingly intense media scrutiny. The list of 1,900 guests for the event was released re...

Apr 26, 1865:  John Wilkes Booth is killed when Union soldiers track him down to a Virginia farm 12 days after he assassinated President Abraham Lincoln. Twenty-six-year-old Booth was one of the most famous actors in the country when he shot Lin...

Researchers Build a Transistor Out Of a Single Electron A stepping stone toward quantum computing and artificial atoms By Clay Dillow SketchSET at the Atomic Scale Image courtesy of University of Pittsburgh University of Pittsburgh researchers have ass...

Smallpox Vaccine Wikimedia Commons By Rebecca BoylePosted 04.13.2011 at 12:00 pm Humanity’s worst scourge, the smallpox virus, may finally wind up on death row in May if health officials decide to destroy the last known samples. The virus was eliminated in human populations more than 30 years ago, but several international groups want to kill any remaining virus samples stored in test tubes on two continents. Destruction of the smallpox virus, which was eradicated in the 1970s, has been mulled since 1980, but World Health Organization officials renewed debate about the matter earlier this year and will decide the viruses’ fate at an upcoming meeting. Two labs possess the last known…

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