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Large Hadron Collider: Damaged by a Time-Traveling Bird?

Nov. 11, 2009
The Large Hadron Collider, outside Geneva, has been beset with delays and problems since 2006, when it was originally scheduled to launch. Are they portents from the future?
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President Obama awards the Presidential Medal of Freedom in Washington
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President Barack Obama awards the the Presidential Medal of Freedom to singer/songwriter Bob Dylan during a ceremony in the East Room at the White House in Washington on May 29, 2012. The Medal of Freedom is our NationÕs highest civilian honor, presented to individuals who have made especially meritorious contributions to the security or national interests of the United States, to world peace, or to cultural or other significant public or private endeavors. UPI/Kevin Dietsch