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...molecule is so beautiful," Watson once observed in a chat with TIME. "Its glory was reflected on Francis and me," and the two scientists have spent their lives since then trying to live up to its standards. They marveled that something so vital could be so simple and such a surprise. When they toasted their discovery in a pub one February night 50 years ago, Watson and Crick had no idea that not only biology but also the drugs we take and the machines we build, the food we eat and the choices we face when we decide to have...
...wing turned up near Fort Worth, Texas, while a rear wing section was examined in the eastern part of the state, near Nacogdoches. Researchers dug up old NASA memos warning of just the kind of accident that may have claimed Columbia. Experts sought to reassemble 32 seconds of vital, if patchy, data that sputtered down from Columbia after voice communications were lost. As NASA scrambled to manage events, officials in Washington began taking sides, some sharpening the long knives for the agency, others lining up to defend it. "Space exploration will go on," says Senator Mary Landrieu, Democrat of Louisiana...
...constitute a large portion of the exhibit’s works. Many of the sutra chapters include illustrations that accompany the calligraphic text. Beautifully detailed woodblock prints, both inked and touched up with gold pigment, make up the magnificent pages of the sutras. The copying of such texts was vital to the transmission of Buddhist beliefs and practices. Furthermore, it was considered a meritorious act that brought good fortune to both the patron who commissioned the work and the artist himself...
...Kirby has pointed out in his letter to the Faculty, if “we say ritually, that Harvard College is at the heart of the University, we must work continuously to make that statement true.” Harvard’s world-famous College will remain vital only as long as it receives the money it needs...
With any luck, perhaps the next doyen of the pro-science, anti-creationist movement will be another Harvard professor. Nothing, indeed, could be a more apt or vital part of University President Lawrence H. Summers’ professed commitment to the biological sciences, and nothing could better honor professor Gould’s legacy...