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Strack takes particular pride in the newest part of Central Kitchen, which has been appropriately dubbed “Enormous Room.” He lovingly describes the décor of Enormous Room. “The two rooms are really two sides of the same coin,” Strack explains. The upstairs space, which features plush couches and chairs as well as artfully strewn pillows and rugs, has a decidedly Moroccan feel. The room is meant to provide an intimate, but lively, atmosphere. “At the beginning we had it lit only by candlelight...
Coles’ subsequent decision to relocate the magazine inaugurated a period of piecemeal efforts to sustain the its viability. DoubleTake was saved first by federal legislation that granted eligible non-profit institutions some proceeds from the Department of Treasury’s coin sales, then by a series of smaller contributions and grants. Although publication continued until the summer of 2002, the subscription base by that time had dropped to 25,000, and some contributors had waited for over a year without receiving compensation. Their grievances began appearing in public fora, and the outcry reached a point where Coles...
Britain's Royal Mint is scheduled to issue a 2 coin commemorating the event --By Sora Song and Andrea Dorfman
...savvy King?s College co-worker Maurice Wilkins, who ultimately shared a Nobel with Watson and Crick. As for the pairing of their names, Watson said that he got the first position when they sent off their paper to Nature as a result of the toss of a coin. Anyway, he said, ?I think I should have been first.? Nonetheless, skeptical colleagues in Cambridge for some months thereafter kept calling the double helix the WC structure (after the Brit jargon for toilet), because, said Watson with a triumphant grin, they were sure that?s where it would wind up. Predictions...
...flip a coin enough times, it is eventually going have to come up tails and you’ll lose,” Parker said. “It just doesn’t seem to come up tails...