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...biology that beckoned the gifted Oak Park, Ill., teenager. Encouraged by Fred Meins, one of his professors at the University of Illinois, to try his hand at lab work, Thomson became intrigued by the mysteries of early development--the burst of biological activity when the fertilized egg implants itself in the womb, then starts dividing and forming the specialized cells that turn miraculously into various tissues in the body. Most researchers studying these events used mice, but Thomson, after earning a Ph.D. in molecular biology at the University of Pennsylvania, as well as a veterinary-medicine degree, turned to more...
BOSTON—The late Congressman Joseph J. Moakley (D) would like the big field of candidates seeking to replace him in this Fall’s special election, says Fred Clark, a longtime Moakley aide...
...Fred Astaire Story (with Oscar Peterson) "One of my favorite albums...
...nicer if the film let us see its lithe star work his martial artistry, and not chop it into minute bits of film. Nahon seems not to know that Hong Kong action fighting is dancing and, like a Fred Astaire number, it needs to be shot in relatively long takes. When the Chinese chop things up, they toss them in a wok and eat them...
...Antioch, Alexandria and Jerusalem; in Beirut. Greek Catholics split from the East Orthodox Church in 1724 to accept the authority of the Pope. Maximus V led 600,000 followers, mainly in Syria, Egypt and Lebanon. He advocated closer relations with the East Orthodox Church, straining ties with Rome. DIED. FRED NEIL, 64, folk-songwriter who penned the theme song Everybody's Talkin' for the 1969 hit movie Midnight Cowboy; in Summerland Key, Florida. Neil emerged from the Greenwich Village music scene in the mid-1960s. The Florida native later founded the Dolphin Research Project to stop the trafficking and exploitation...