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...literally written the book on chemical bonds. A few months before Watson arrived, in fact, Pauling embarrassed the Cavendish by winning the race to figure out the structure of keratin, the protein that makes up hair and fingernails. (It was a long, complex corkscrew of atoms known as the alpha-helix.) While he did rely on X-ray crystallographs for hints to what was going on at the molecular level, Pauling depended more heavily on scaled-up models he built by hand, using his deep knowledge of the ways atoms can bond together. Cavendish scientists, relying mostly on X rays...
...that. Second, most people thought it couldn't be solved by building models--they thought you needed to get the answer primarily from X-ray crystallography of DNA. Rosalind Franklin's made that mistake. But we said, "It worked for Linus Pauling when he solved the structure of the alpha helix, so why not for us?" Third, we had each other. It helps to have someone else to take over the thinking when you get frustrated. Fourth, we were willing to ask for help and talk to our competitors. Again, Rosalind was so intelligent that she rarely sought advice...
...tipping point, as with almost any fashion, was its adoption by high-profile stylish women--in the fall of 2001. Fashion is a game in which alpha-dog celebrities stay ahead of middle-class consumers, often by mimicking inner-city teenagers and other transgressive subcultures. Madonna's bold use of classic Adidas roused a posse of A-list imitators ranging from Gwyneth Paltrow and Cameron Diaz to Pink. J. Lo made the pastel Juicy Couture velour sweat suit a must-have item, then started producing...
More than 80 women turned out to eat bagels and hear about the rush procedures of Kappa Alpha Theta and Delta Gamma (DG) at Finagle-a-Bagel Friday, continuing a trend of increased interest in female Greek life on campus and confirming the Panhellenic Council’s decision to shop for a new sorority this spring...
...Panhellenic Council, a coordinating body for campus sororities, narrowed down the search in December to Delta Delta Delta, Kappa Kappa Gamma and Alpha...