Word: griffith
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...simplest form of life on the planet and thus the one in which the code might be especially easy to find. By then, scientists had strong evidence that Schrodinger's genetic code was carried by DNA, thanks to a series of brilliant experiments on pneumococcal bacteria, first by Fred Griffith of the British Health Ministry and later by Oswald Avery at the Rockefeller Institute (now Rockefeller University) in New York City...
...most actors, it's a long climb from player to coach. In the silent era, pioneer director D.W. Griffith had entered movies as an actor; Charlie Chaplin directed all his own features. But from the start of the Academy Awards in 1928 through the '70s, only two actors turned directors won even an Oscar nomination for directing: Orson Welles for Citizen Kane and Laurence Olivier for Hamlet. And they were so mammoth, so legendary, that few actors dared imitate them. The auteur corps was replenished by craftsmen who made their names as writers, cameramen and editors and by directors imported...
...members of the band. While LeBlanc’s drum set is prominent at the front and center of the stage, the microphones on either side of it help demonstrate that it’s not a one-man band. Indeed, the Mouths’ two guitarists, John Thomas Griffith and Paul Sanchez, and bassist Rob Savoy all write songs and take turns singing lead...
...DIED. JOHNNY GRIFFITH, 66, classically trained musician and pioneering keyboard wizard for the 1960s Motown band Funk Brothers, who played on legendary hits such as the Supremes' Stop in the Name of Love and Marvin Gaye's I Heard It Through the Grapevine; in Detroit. As one of the pioneers of the Motown sound, a fusion of soul, gospel and pop, Griffith and the Funk Brothers have had a lasting impact on popular music trends through the past four decades...
...outbreak 52% of all people disciplined in the U.K. for workplace infractions were punished for e-mail and Net-related abuses, two-thirds of them involving porn, says an industry study 15 young girls from the streets of Calcutta will be invited to live in Hollywood actress Melanie Griffith's home as a philanthropic gesture, the actress announced at a charity dinner in France 600 tons of chemical agents might be stockpiled in Iraq, say U.N. weapons experts 170 choirs worldwide will mark the Sept. 11 anniversary by performing Mozart's Requiem at 8:46 a.m. in each...