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...molecular biology's leap into prominence has been amply documented. In 1953, at Britain's venerable Cambridge University, two brash young scientists named James Watson and Francis Crick made a discovery comparable to the fissioning of the atom or Darwin's publication of Origin of Species. In a matter of months, after cribbing clues from associates and competitors, Watson, then 25, and Crick, 36, cracked what they grandiosely called "the secret of life": they unraveled the long, spiraling architecture of the DNA molecule, a feat that suggested how heredity truly worked...
...courtyard would be started to drown out the screams to come. Each prisoner was brought down and told to kneel before an officer in the yard. He was asked to explain why he had been brought in and was told he was being released. Then guards would leap from the darkness, loop a thick rope round the victim's neck and slowly strangle him. The coup de gráce was a sledgehammer blow to the chest. It took about ten minutes to kill each prisoner. The bodies were piled in trucks and driven north for five hours...
Stiles still managed to contribute to the final total, taking second in the high jump with a 6-ft. 2-in. leap...
Sola Mahoney led a Harvard sweep in the triple jump with a 46-ft., 10 1/2-in. leap. "The triple jump was the turning point," coach Bill McCurdy said after the meet. "The sweep gave us the early cushion we needed...
High jumper Sue Hewitt continued her domination of that event, capturing first place with a 5-ft., 2-in. leap, equalling her record to round out the Crimson's field event winners...