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Figure Skating: 2006 World Championships

(March 20–26, 2006, Calgary, Canada)Men's singles1. Stephane Lambiel, Switzerland2. Brian Joubert, France3. Evan Lysacek, United StatesWomen's singles1. Kimmie Meissner, United States2. Fumie…

Leonard Cohen Biography

Leonard Cohen composerBorn: 9/21/1934Birthplace: Montreal, Quebec, Canada Popular Canadian poet and songwriter whose first book of poetry was Let Us Compare Mythologies (1956). A graduate of…

Stanley N. Cohen

Stanley N. Cohen Born: 1935 Birthplace: Perth Amboy, N.J. Recombinant DNA technology—Biochemists Boyer and Cohen combined…

Berkman, Alexander

(Encyclopedia) Berkman, AlexanderBerkman, Alexanderbĕrkˈmän, bûrkˈmən [key], 1870–1936, anarchist, b. Vilna (then in Russian Lithuania). He immigrated to the United States c.1887. Angered by the…

Winter Olympics 2006: Daily Highlights

Top news of the 2006 Winter Games, day by day by Erin Teare Martin 2/10 • 2/11 • 2/12 • 2/13 • 2/14 • 2/15 • 2/16 • 2/17 • 2/18 • 2/19 • 2/20 • 2/21 • 2/22 • 2/23 • 2/24…

2006 United States Medalists

Alpine SkiingMen's Combined—GOLD—Ted LigetyLadies' Giant Slalom—GOLD—Julia MancusoBobsleighWomen—SILVER—Shauna Rohbok, Valerie FlemingCurlingMen—BRONZE—Pete Fenson, Scott Baird, Shawn Rojeski…

Goldman, Emma

(Encyclopedia) Goldman, Emma, 1869–1940, American anarchist, b. Lithuania. She emigrated to Rochester, N.Y., in 1886 and worked there in clothing factories. After 1889 she was active in the anarchist…