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Founders: Briton Hadden 1898-1929 Henry R. Luce...
...attacks on security forces and Coptic Christians, as well as tourist sites. Last year 80 people were killed and 130 wounded. Al Jama'a, which is believed to operate in small cells, has claimed responsibility for most of the 20 tourist attacks. In addition to the cafe attack, one Briton has been killed and five Germans wounded. Revenues from tourism, which were expected to total $4 billion this year, have been cut in half...
Forty years ago this month, American James Watson and Briton Francis Crick made history when they unraveled the secret of the dna molecule, the genetic blueprint that determines whose eyes are brown, whose physique is round and who is most susceptible to such hereditary diseases as cystic fibrosis and Huntington's disease. The partners, who won a Nobel Prize in 1962, don't get together much anymore, but last week they and a group of distinguished colleagues gathered on Long Island, New York, at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, where Watson is now director, to celebrate the anniversary of their...
Founders: Briton Hadden 1898-1929 Henry R. Luce...
...PAST MIDNIGHT WHEN HENRY R. LUCE AND BRITON Hadden and their colleagues jammed themselves into three taxis and drove to a printing plant in downtown Manhattan. Working till dawn, they wrote copy to fill holes and supplied captions for illustrations that years later were described as looking as though they had been engraved on pieces of bread...