Top scientist Watson cancels British book tour after race row
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A Nobel Prize-winning scientist who reportedly claimed black people are less intelligent than whites, has pulled out of a book tour and gone home, his publicist said Friday.
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Bernie Ecclestone, the owner of the commercial rights to the Formula 1 (F1) world championship, has reportedly pulled the plug on the British Grand Prix.
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Nobel Prize-winning DNA authority Dr. James Watson cut short a book tour in Britain on Friday and returned to the United States over racially insensitive comments attributed to him in a British newspaper.
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THE British Grand Prix has been axed from the 2005 Formula One calendar by Bernie Ecclestone, the sport&#39;s supremo, after a long-standing argument with the British Racing Drivers&#39; Club and Sir Jackie Stewart, its president.
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US automaker Ford says it is pulling its Jaguar Formula One team out of the auto racing circuit at the end of this season. Jaguar&#39;s chairman said the company does not believe it makes business sense to continue operating in Formula One.
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DNA scientist James Watson is understood to be heading home to the US to discuss his future after controversial comments about race and intelligence.
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PARIS  - Swiss cycling team Phonak have fired Olympic time-trial champion Tyler Hamilton who is being investigated for alleged blood doping.
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The England cricket team have cancelled their planned flight to Zimbabwe following the African country&#39;s president&#39;s decision to ban British journalists.
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London's Science Museum canceled a Friday talk by Nobel Prize-winning geneticist James Watson after the co-discoverer of DNA's structure told a newspaper that Africans and Europeans had different levels of intelligence.
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An attempt to stop scientific research into human-animal "hybrid" embryos fails in the House of Lords.
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James Watson, the Nobel laureate who sparked an international furor last week with comments about intelligence levels among blacks, has retired from his post at a prestigious research institution.
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Olympic time trial champion Tyler Hamilton is suspended after failing a doping test.
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LONDON, England -- Olympic time trial champion Tyler Hamilton was suspended by is Phonak team on Wednesday after he failed a dope test at the Athens Games.
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The Pope cancels a visit to a top Rome university after protests against his views on Galileo.
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The BBC suspends its online educational service BBC Jam following complaints from competitors.
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Science & environment: DNA pioneer James Watson has retired from his post as chancellor of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
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The Attorney General has stopped the BBC from broadcasting a piece about the cash for honours inquiry