Word: jeffreys
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Jeffrey Katzenberg's motives for creating the movie The Prince of Egypt must be judged over time [COVER, Dec. 14]. Was it Katzenberg or others at Disney who had the Midas touch for creating successful animated films? Assessing the box-office appeal of Prince of Egypt is a practical way of answering that question. Perhaps Katzenberg's contribution to improved understanding of the Pentateuch would be to allocate a portion of this film's profits to subsidizing independent scholarly research into the Old Testament characters. The Prince of Egypt's expected income would hardly be dented by funding a substantial...
...laying claim to human DNA at all. This is partly an economic issue. If the entire genetic schematic is pre-emptively owned by the research teams studying it now, where is the incentive for independent scientists--often sources of great innovation--to work on it later? Licensing costs, warns Jeffrey Kahn, director of the University of Minnesota's Center for Bioethics, could hold medical progress hostage. Patenting proponents insist that an equally persuasive argument could be made that the large genome-mapping groups need patent protection to make their work worthwhile to them...
...Mastery & Elegance exhibit at the Sackler Museum consists of 115 drawings by 70 different French artists from the collection of private investor Jeffrey E. Horvitz. The "Guide to the Exhibition" booklet tells the story of the 17th and 18th centuries of French drafts-manship. It outlines the development of the techniques, approaches and influences of these French artists in cultured and enlightened words, but it may be inconsequential to anyone who isn't an art history concentrator...
...Crimson Cash and door privileges do not sit on the cards themselves," says Jeffrey B. Cuppett, HUDS manager of card application technologies. "Every time you go to the Coop or Loker to make a transaction there, it queries our server, and it tells our server whether to let you in [to the sys tem]," he says...
...Jeffrey Ressner/Los Angeles