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...movies give us two glimpses of Hart: both fictional, tantalizing, sad. The better known is an MGM bio-pic, the 1948 "Words and Music," with Tom Drake as Rodgers and Mickey Rooney as Hart. There we learn that Hart was short, agitated, unreliable, full of mischief and misery - and that if only Betty Garrett had accepted his offer of matrimony, he might have lived his full span. It happens that Hart did propose to Vivienne Segal, who starred in R&Hart's "Pal Joey"; and she did refuse, telling friends, "I mean, I never even kissed Larry." The film omits...
...TIME senior writer Jeffrey Kluger just sold a book proposal to Putnam. Says Kluger, "The proposal is about Jonas Salk and the polio vaccine. It won't be a sweeping, door-stop sized bio. Instead it will be more of a medical sleuthing story, focusing on the critical years between 1952 and 1955. The book is pegged to come out in the spring of 2004, which is the 50th anniversary of the great field trial that proved the vaccine successful. Jonas Salk's family is cooperating in the research, opening his private files, lab books, and letters, which should make...
...French social and political life. "I think it not only reflects a new, bipartisan approach to governing," Lenoir says, "but also proves European policy has risen above the usual ideological divisions." Lenoir, 54, knows a thing or two about European policy and diplomacy. A lawyer who specializes in bio- and hi-tech matters, she was already one of France's leading legal ethicists when in 1994 she became president of the European Commission's advisory panel on science and technology policy. Her brief ranged from data secrecy to cloning and involved deliberations with researchers, politicians and business people across...
...conditioners and stereos in Malaysia for sale domestically and overseas. It has struggled since its inception four years ago. Mokhtar may also be taking over another pair of gasping Mahathir favorites: the Entertainment-Village, through which local multimedia and film industries would "leapfrog into the digital age"; and Bio-valley, a still vague attempt to spark off a Malaysian biotechnology industry. Both E-village and Bio-valley are part of the Prime Minister's Multimedia Super Corridor, a hugely ambitious?and expensive?attempt to create an Asian Silicon Valley that is floundering in the wake of the dotcom crash...
...search for Wiley initially attracted national attention because of his work with infectious diseases—a topic of concern after Sept. 11. His family and colleagues have said it is unlikely that bio-terrorism had anything to do with his death...