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...have never seen Francis Crick in a modest mood." James Watson's mischievous opening line of The Double Helix raised many eyebrows at the time, but even Crick wouldn't quarrel with it now. Still brash and outspoken at 86, even without the booming laugh that once echoed through Cambridge's Cavendish lab, Crick has no reason for modesty. In the years since their discovery of the double helix, Crick, unlike Watson, has continued to do significant research, mostly by pondering big--and often controversial--theoretical questions rather than by toiling in the lab. Says his longtime colleague and fellow...
Gann seems excited for the chance to show off a little song and dance. Her mood is remarkably lighter...
...addition, discussion of the faculty’s projected budget shortfalls and the possible war in Iraq underscored the somber mood of the meeting...
...stepped off the stage to personally thank and shake the hands of the better part of the audience. An impassioned opening speech, in which he expressed his belief that we must rail against our “generation of vipers” and seek our own independence, set the mood for the truly unique concert...
...Brahm has succeeded where even master propagandist Jiang failed: he has erased the tragedy and rendered the revolution perfect. He points to an empty pack of official Communist Party cigarettes glued to the wooden armrest of a vintage easy chair. "What I am trying to do is recreate a mood, a dream of the 1950s innocence when idealism was building postrevolutionary China. I want to capture the essence of how people lived then and how powerful people made decisions." Despite Brahm's enthusiasm for the early idealism of China's communist liberation, many of his vintage treasures?posters, lamps, porcelain...