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...standing in front of the huge lightning rod of a Jesus statue is a slightly different story. Petosky was one of the many stops on my route as the Great Lakes (code name for the Midwestern states between Pennsylvania and Missouri) Research-Writer for “Lets Go: USA.” I spent the first seven weeks of my summer in one of Harvard’s most-coveted positions in one of the least-coveted places imaginable. While someone was checking out Paris from the top of the Eiffel Tower, I was taking notes on this record...
...ISSUE The Secret of Life Cracking the DNA code has changed how we live, heal and imagine the future...
Still, the very monomania of the Portuguese letter writer was intriguing. Why the fixation on the telephone? What was the subtext? To whom would someone pen such a peculiar letter? Or was “telephone” merely a code word? To whom had 501 Portuguese Verbs once belonged...
Almost total silence. The number of references to the original papers was essentially zero until the 1960s. People waited for the explanation of how DNA duplicated itself and how its code was turned into proteins before they fully accepted our structure. They didn't understand that it was simply too good not to be true. That's one reason we didn't get the Nobel for nine years...
...James Watson and Francis Crick, who figured out the structure of DNA, an event celebrated in this issue, but we have identified some consequential days that may take you by surprise, like the Saturday in 1980 when accountant Ted Benna found an important opportunity in an obscure tax-code section called...