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...this collaboration has served as a warm-up for the big event we have planned for next month. Feb. 28 will mark the 50th anniversary of one of the signal achievements of 20th century science: the discovery of the structure of DNA by James Watson and Francis Crick. We're going to be celebrating that breakthrough both in the magazine and, starting Feb. 19, in Monterey, Calif., where Watson and TIME president Eileen Naughton will be the hosts of a three-day conference called The Future of Life...
...epics, Sir Peter Ustinov, now 81, was king of the genre. He fiddled as Nero while Rome burned in Quo Vadis? (1951) and won the first of his two Academy Awards in 1960 for a supporting role in Stanley Kubrick's Spartacus. "When I was in Rome for the 50th anniversary of Quo Vadis?, the mayor asked me to say a few words in Italian," Ustinov recalls. "I reminded him I was Nero, who only spoke Latin." The story captures the wit and erudition for which Ustinov - who was knighted in 1990 for his accomplishments as an actor, director, playwright...
TIME commemorates the 50th anniversary of the discovery...
TIME commemorates the 50th anniversary of the discovery...
...label's 50th anniversary, Chloé's CEO Ralph Toledano insists he has no reason to regret parting with McCartney: "Celebrity is a marketing vehicle that appeared some years ago, and it will go as it came." But others aren't so sure. "Chloé's appeal was built around Stella McCartney - her personality, her friends, her social circle," says Sagra de Rosen, a luxury-goods analyst at J.P. Morgan who covers the Richemont Group, which owns Chloé, along with Cartier, Dunhill and other brands. "After she left, it lost a bit of that appeal...