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...panelists relished the task, in part because it gave them a chance to swap notes (and a little bit of gossip) on the contenders. It helped that they came from different disciplines: Thomas Cech, who heads the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, shared the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1989, while Herbert Pardes, the president of New York Presbyterian Hospital, teaches psychiatry at Columbia, and J. Richard Gott is an astrophysicist at Princeton. M.I.T.'s Steven Pinker and Harvard's Stephen Kosslyn specialize in brain and cognitive sciences; Thomas Lovejoy is a tropical biologist who serves as chief biodiversity adviser...
Breaking this molecular hullabaloo into its elemental physical forces is Carlos Bustamante's specialty. Bustamante, 50, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at the University of California, Berkeley, came to the U.S. from Peru 26 years ago as a Fulbright scholar. In the early 1990s, while at the University of Oregon, he and his colleagues tacked one end of a DNA molecule to a magnetic bead and measured its elasticity by tugging at the bead with magnets. A stroke of genius, no doubt, but to what end? "We didn't quite know how to answer that question at the time...
...owns a casino. He's rich. He's nutsy. Donald Sinclair (John Cleese) is Howard Hughes with a cheerfully sadistic attitude. He puts $2 million in a duffel bag 700 miles from Las Vegas and sets six desperate, disparate groups in pursuit of the swag--winner take all. Meanwhile, to enrich himself further, he has a roomful of rich guys betting on the outcome...
...that are, including Melton, have had to make do with private funding. Melton said sources of his funding include the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation International...
...Maybe he does. Or a gentile jockstrap masquerading as a Freudian analyst (and fooling no one). Or Howard Hughes. But the motive for Gore's beard is not ideological. The beard is not a badge - not a party uniform...