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...ancestry as a wee piffling obstacle. So grateful was it when Madge married director Guy Ritchie in a Scottish castle last winter that the board, as "a special thank-you," commissioned a new tartan, Romantic Scotland, in honor of the duo. "Madonna is the original Material Girl, so a length of fabric seems doubly appropriate," said the board's marketing head. The color scheme: pearl white, for Like a Virgin; blue, for the early True Blue album; yellow, for the Blond Ambition tour; and purple, for Scottish heather. But what about Ritchie? Oh, yeah: "A three-line overcheck echoes...
Unlike all past issues the latest contains just one story, completely self-contained in the single issue. But just to mess with us a bit, the narrative has been divided into 29 vignettes that range in length from a single strip to several pages. Some of them continue a running narrative throughout the book and others are just "one-shots." This Altman-esque technique of weaving different story threads across each other forms a tapestry of lives rather than a straight narrative...
...structure of just one target, Vertex homes in on entire families of proteins as it seeks out its leads. This is done by crystallizing a protein of interest and exposing it to intense X-ray beams. The way those beams are scattered reveals how atoms along the molecule's length are arranged--information that is converted into a protein structure by computers. Chemists use this structure to digitally model molecules that should fit--like the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle--into grooves on the protein's surface. When the company has found about 100 that might work, it produces them...
...development of Amis’ intellectual sophistication and distinctive style. Arranged thematically rather than chronologically, Amis counsels the reader to keep an eye on dates throughout the book. Even without looking, it is usually obvious which reviews were written in the 1970s by the editorial assistant Amis (wearing shoulder-length hair, a flower shirt and knee-high tricolored boots), and which reviews are the product of the mellower, graying at the temples, established author of the 1990s. The evolution alone is worth the read...
Stephen J. Newman’s only current connection to the world of journalism is through his law practice in Los Angeles. He found his experience on The Crimson and the What? very rewarding, if only because it taught him how to write to length and write to deadline—two skills that are surprisingly important to an attorney. He also knows the difference between a point and a pica...