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  • Scholar of Dead Sea Scrolls to be honored by his students

    Book to be published as tribute to Professor James H. Charlesworth of Princeton Theological Seminary By: David Campbell    In 1947, a young Bedouin shepherd was searching for a stray goat on the northwest shore of the Dead Sea when he made a remarkable discovery.    He threw a rock into a cave in the barren hills…

  • Helping couples to conceive by means of in vitro fertilization

    Nearly 1 percent of all children born in the United States today is conceived ‘in vitro,’ Latin for ‘in glass.’ By:Seth Derman, M.D. in Collaboration with Gloria N. Beck    It is perhaps one of life’s cruelest ironies. A couple delays pregnancy until they’re emotionally or financially prepared, only to discover that when they’re ready for…

  • Surprise end for wrestler

    North’s Webb wins tourney By: Justin Feil    Chris Webb didn’t wrestle as well as he had hoped at the start of last season.    The West Windsor-Plainsboro North senior is certainly making up for it quickly this season. Thursday, he won the 215-pound weight class at the Bears Invitational at East Brunswick High.    "It was a…

  • Resolved: Let’s become better people

    PACKET EDITORIAL, Jan. 3 By: Packet Editorial    New Year’s resolutions, as everyone knows, are made to be broken.    Here we are, three days into 2006, and most of us have probably already eaten more than we swore we would eat once we started that diet — the one we were so sure we would stick…

  • In Plainsboro, a new landscape will greet familiar faces

    Village Center construction and hospital announcement among major developments of 2005 By: Emily Craighead    PLAINSBORO — The faces have stayed the same in Plainsboro through 2005, but the landscape is beginning to change.    Mayor Peter Cantu was re-elected to his 11th three-year term on the Township Committee, receiving 68 percent of the vote. Mayor Cantu,…

  • In Plainsboro, a new landscape will greet familiar faces

    Village Center construction and hospital announcement among major developments of 2005 By: Emily Craighead    PLAINSBORO — The faces have stayed the same in Plainsboro through 2005, but the landscape is beginning to change.    Mayor Peter Cantu was re-elected to his 11th three-year term on the Township Committee, receiving 68 percent of the vote. Mayor Cantu,…

  • PHS boys just miss thrilling tourney win

    Other hoop squads split games By: Bob Nuse    NEW HOPE, Pa. — The Princeton High boys’ basketball team was certainly in a position to win — several times. But in the end, the Little Tigers came up just a bit short, falling to host New Hope-Solebury, 45-44, in double overtime in the championship game of…

  • Princeton Township to collect Christmas trees

    By: Rachel Silverman    Princeton Township will be conducting a number of Christmas tree pickups over the next few weeks.    In the area bounded by Route 206, Princeton Borough line and Route 27, the collections are slated for today, Jan. 9, 17 and 23.    The area bounded by Alexander Street to the west and the borough…

  • Princeton anthropologist wins book awards

    By: David Campbell    Princeton University anthropology Professor Joao Biehl has won two awards for his book, "Vita: Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment," the university said.    He received the Eileen Basker Memorial Prize from the Society for Medical Anthropology and an honorable mention for the Victor Turner Prize for Ethnographic Writing from the Society…