"A noted Rice University professor died Friday morning
when a Metro light rail train hit her near Hermann Park.
Marjorie Corcoran was bicycling toward the campus
about 8:30 a.m. when she was struck on the southbound
tracks at 6300 Fannin near Sunset, according to Metro officials."
— The Houston Chronicle yesterday
Houston is on Central Standard Time; 8:30 a.m. there
is 9:30 a.m. Eastern Standard Time (the time used here).
Log24 at that time yesterday —
Corcoran's Rice University page
has some brief remarks
on fundamental symmetries.
Character in a novel by Balzac —
"… la Matière, le Mouvement, le Produit!"