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...question at the heart of artificial-life research, a fast-growing scientific field that seeks to illuminate the nature of life by recreating lifelike behavior in nonliving systems. In laboratories around the world, scientists tapping at computer keyboards are creating electronic versions of biological entities -- proteins, microbes, ants -- that bear a striking resemblance to their living counterparts. In the process, the researchers are raising questions that touch on some of biology's most enduring mysteries: How does nature create order from chaos? How did life emerge from nonlife? What does it mean to be alive...
...historic preservation from a grass-roots trend to a mainstream movement. During her 16-year tenure with the Department of the Interior, she has helped designate more than 200 structures and districts as National Historic Landmarks. Among her assorted trophies are Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater house in Bear Run, Pa., and the elephant-shaped hotel in Margate City, N.J. While there are 55,000 sites, properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places, there are only 2,000 National Historic Landmarks. Being included on that exclusive roll is preservation's premier distinction...
...Bandier, 49, a former real estate lawyer, concentrates on business, while Koppelman, 50, minds the music. He has spent 30 years in the industry, including a stint as a member of the Ivy Three, a pop group that recorded a 1960 hit, Yogi, about the cartoon bear. As a music executive in the 1970s, Koppelman produced such hits as Dolly Parton's Here You Come Again and the Barbra Streisand-Neil Diamond duet You Don't Bring Me Flowers...
Chastened, I decided to cut out the lag time between interview and publication. I called Marty Zweig, another market star, who updates his tape- recorded advice daily. The Dow had just closed down 34 points the Friday before Memorial Day, and I wanted to know whether the bear was back. "The market does not go down prior to holidays all that often," Zweig's tape explained, "but when it does, the odds are about 7 out of 8 that the next day will be lower." It shot up 49 points...
...Titan Coach Ray "Sugar Bear" Hamilton told me. "I don't give a damn how it looked...