Word: baron
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...scientists' work was based. Lister, in particular, was ridiculed or ignored by his fellow surgeons, who refused to acknowledge the marvels he was accomplishing. But he forced himself to overcome his own gentle nature, persisting with the zeal of an evangelist. In the end, honored by Queen Victoria as Baron Lister, he lived to see his name ranked with those of the greatest medical thinkers of all time. As for Virchow, so revered did his theories make him that he came to be admiringly called "the pope of German medicine...
Nelson Fairchild Jr. is by no means the scariest of these, but he has the problems--and dreams up the solutions--that set a very complicated plot into irreversible overdrive. The alcoholic son of a Northern California land baron, Nelson wants to leave his wife Winona but cannot without impoverishing himself. His tyrannical (and Roman Catholic) father has given Winona title to the house and property as a means of discouraging divorce. But Nelson needs money fast; he chickened out of a cocaine-smuggling scheme in the Rome airport, and now owes an irate druglord back home nearly...
...Could it be that a billionaire narcotics trafficker who regularly eluded assassins and prosecutors alike had met his end as the result of a nip and tuck? Having taken an international beating for failing to apprehend Carrillo over the years, the Mexican government was initially reluctant to declare the baron dead. But by early last week, officials of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, which considered Carrillo its No. 1 target, confirmed that the corpse's fingerprints matched those known to have come from the fabled criminal. Mexican physicians then conducted tests that matched DNA taken from the body to genetic...
...would be nice if President Clinton would speak out at least as forcefully as an oil baron on the subject of climate change. Instead, in his closing speech at the U.N., Clinton almost plaintively said he could not do anything until Americans and the Congress were convinced that climate change was "real and imminent." To that end, he has promised to hold a conference later this year to highlight the problem. Perhaps then we will see whether he is willing to be as forceful on the issue of greenhouse gases as he was last week on the issue of smog...
DIED. MANFRED VON ARDENNE, 90, Germany's scientific jack-of-all-trades; in Dresden. The "Red Baron" vowed to switch fields each decade to keep his intellect sharp. As a physicist, he helped the Soviets build the atom bomb...