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...this is lost in the gibberish of the Turkish prosecutor, and, for lack of subtitles, Mr. Contreras may be excused for not quite grasping the motives of the Turkish government in sentencing Billy Hayes to life imprisonment. Nonetheless, I find it inadmissible to acclaim a movie which is so outrageously biased in its depiction of a whole nation. "Midnight Express" is offensive only not only to Turks, but to all self-respecting human beings. Dani Rodrik...
Gynecologist Patrick Steptoe and Physiologist Robert Edwards have basked in acclaim and glory since the July birth of Louise Brown, the world's first test-tube baby. But last week a shadow was cast over the Britons' triumph. Chicago's Barren Foundation, set up to promote fertility research, abruptly canceled plans to honor Steptoe on Nov. 15 with its annual award. Reason: Steptoe and Edwards have not yet published a detailed report of their work in a medical journal. The decision caused confusion among doctors and the public, and prompted at least one newspaper, the New York...
...discovered Private Lightning," Falk smiles proudly. "And the first time The Talking Heads were heard on the radio was here." Their song "Psychokiller" has gained them acclaim in punk rock circles...
Kapitsa's research was in an entirely different field: the behavior of materials at extremely low temperatures. In the early 1930s, while working at Britain's Cambridge University, the young Russian won international acclaim for creating for the first time a device for liquefying helium in large quantities. That was no small feat, because helium does not become liquid until its temperature has been reduced to about 4° above absolute zero. When Kapitsa returned to the Soviet Union for a visit in 1934, Stalin refused to let him leave again-on the ground that...
...Scotland Yard pushed its investigation of the London deaths, suspicion centered on Bulgaria's security service. Both Markov and Kostov had been well-known intellectuals in Bulgaria, with friends in the Politburo. Before defecting in 1969, Markov had won national acclaim as a writer and TV commentator. One of his later plays, The Assassins, dealt with a plot to kill a general in a police state. His defection, and his subsequent BBC and Radio Free Europe broadcasts, had been an embarrassment to the Sofia government and triggered a shake-up in its propaganda establishment. The 1977 defection of Kostov, formerly...