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There are glimpses of him chopping wood and playing tennis at his secluded and heavily guarded Cavendish, Vt., estate. In an 80-minute interview on the popular French literary talk show Apostrophes, Soviet Exile Alexander Solzhenitsyn, 65, among other things reiterated his plea to the American people to stand up to the Soviet Union ("Do not go down on your knees like the pacifists of Western Europe"). The writer's ringing endorsement of the virtues of military power might be welcome at the White House, but it is bound to irk Europe's leftist intellectuals-something that should...
WILDLY excited, two men dashed out of a side door of Cambridge University's Cavendish Laboratory, cut across Free School Lane and ducked into the Eagle, a pub where generations of Cambridge scientists have met to gossip about experiments and celebrate triumphs. Over drinks, James D. Watson, then 24, and Francis Crick, 36, talked excitedly, Crick's booming voice damping out conversations among other Eagle patrons. When friends stopped to ask what the commotion was all about, Crick did not mince words. "We," he announced exultantly, "have discovered the secret of life...
...program had provided one-time interim funding for nine students not funded by NIH grants last year, but these students are moving to NIH funding as new positions open up, Cavendish said, adding that they would use up grant money that might have gone to next year's students...
...Cavendish added that some students scheduled to graduate this year elected to spend another year in the program, remaining in places he had expected to open...
...policy and procedures paper will be included in next year's applications giving more specific details on the funding process, Cavendish said...