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Issues of privacy and knowledge arise every day, particularly as researchers develop tests that spot diseases for which there are no cures. Can it really be kept a secret from your boss or your insurance company or your future spouse that you carry a gene that predicts you will develop Alzheimer's by age 45? Would you want to know that you are likely to develop Huntington's disease if there is still nothing doctors can do to stop it from destroying...
Besides, they couldn't give up, because Pauling was now on the case for sure. He had written to Wilkins, then to Wilkins' boss, J.T. Randall, asking for copies of King's X-ray images. Both men declined. But Pauling was coming to a Royal Society meeting in May 1952; it would be tougher to refuse him in person. As Pauling was preparing to board a plane in New York, however, the U.S. government seized his passport, citing what they considered his dangerous left-wing political views. While that setback might delay Pauling, Watson and Crick knew it would...
When you Trek Nepal's Annapurna Circuit you get ... Bragging Rights and Beauty Rest When I told my boss about my holiday-trekking plans, he grimaced and proclaimed, "It's so dirty." When I informed my friends that I was going to spend 15 days hiking 300 kilometers around one of the Himalaya's most iconic mountain massifs, they told me I was "hard-core." They were all wrong: I discovered that hiking Nepal's Annapurna circuit is almost luxurious?and you can do it alone...
...Admirers of his early Hong Kong films will recognize several of Chan's self-homages. His versatility with an umbrella echoes the great battle on a bus in Police Story. The juggling act Chon forces two thugs to perform with several of their boss' expensive vases is reminiscent of Chan's balancing acts in Drunken Master, and a teeming, imaginatively staged free-for-all in an outdoor market recalls Drunken Master II. At the end, when our heroes dangle from Big Ben's giant minute hand, Chan connoisseurs will whisper, "Ah yes. Project...
...rapid melodic flow alternating with hammering back-up rhymes. Owusu-Kesse dependably delivered emphatic gestures and rhymes, epitomizing the hip-hop star. The group as a whole obviously knew how to keep the energy up, as Deleon got the audience hyped over a song about hating your job and boss, or, as they all enjoined the crowd, to ”bounce...