Composer mourns Pluto's demotion
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British composer Colin Matthews has more reason than most to mourn the
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Famed American composer Elmer Bernstein passed away at his home in Ojai, Calif on Aug. 18, 2004, his publicist said on Thursday. The family said Mr.
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A distant, icy rock whose discovery shook up the solar system and led to Pluto's planetary demise has been given a name: Eris.
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Hollywood lost one of its music legends last night with the death of Elmer Bernstein, 82, an Oscar-winning composer who wrote the scores for more than 200 films over five decades, including such classics as The Magnificent ...
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By Michael Stroh< The Baltimore Sun  Call it a mugging in the Milky Way.   In a stunning reversal, astronomers who were ready to expand the solar system's number of planets by three just last week voted to shrink it Thursday instead, stripping Pluto of its status as a planet.
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ÂWhat a gentlemanÂand such a nice man to know,Â writer-lyricist Javed Akhtar sums up the general dismay in the film industry over the sudden passing away of one of BollywoodÂs most revered and in-demand character actors.
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NASA mourns the loss of Mercury astronaut Gordon Cooper, who rocketed into space in his Faith 7 capsule on May 15, 1963 (above, right).
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"The Maestro fought a long, tough battle against the pancreatic cancer which eventually took his life." &#151; Luciano Pavarotti's manager, Terri Robson, in a statement on the opera superstar's death this week at age 71.
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While scientists debated Pluto's fate last summer, Fisher-Price executives were forced into a debate of their own: What would become of their Planet Heroes action figures if Pluto lost its planet status?
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A NASA spacecraft hurtling away from Earth has caught the first glimpse of its distant destination: the dwarf planet Pluto.
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An object smaller than Pluto has been discovered orbiting a dying star in what astronomers said Monday resembles a pint-sized version of our solar system.
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Czech composer Petr Eben, whose wide variety of music has been performed around the globe, has died. He was 78.
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The New York Philharmonic is paying a great deal of attention this season to the Italian avant-garde composer Luciano Berio, who died in 2003
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Later works hint at where a musical genius would have gone if he had grown old.
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Ennio Morricone has composed some of the most moving melodies ever written for films &#151; music that enraptures Yo-Yo Ma.
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After almost a decade, the famed music composer is back doing what he does best -- making beautiful music.
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Pity poor Pluto, the puny former planet is facing yet another indignity. Demoted from planethood a year ago into a new category of dwarf planet, it now turns out that it isn't even the biggest one of those.