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...humiliating--"the biggest mistake," Bragg would one day say, "of my scientific career"--and Crick and Watson knew it could easily happen again. Pauling surely understood that the structure of DNA was the next big challenge, and once he turned his powerful brain to the problem, he would certainly crack it. "Within a few days of my arrival," writes Watson, "we knew what to do: imitate Linus Pauling and beat him at his own game." To do so, they would need X rays of DNA, but they would have to look outside Cambridge. The Cavendish's crystallographers were interested...
...came as a big relief early last week when NASA investigators determined that, yes, it was clearly a loose chunk of insulating foam that had damaged the shuttle Columbia's skin and led to its crack-up in the skies over Texas. Of course, they acknowledged, it was also possible that the ship actually started breaking up over California, and it might not have been foam that killed it, but a meteor. Or turbulence. Or an explosion in the wheel well. In fact, it began to seem that the only thing NASA could say with certainty was that nothing seemed...
That night last spring, Sanders got out of bed and walked outside, telling himself he was going to buy cigarettes but knowing he wasn't. Instead, he went to the corner and bought himself a beer. Next came weed and then crack. "I was thinking, Damn, I did it. Then I was like, Give me more," he remembers. Most ex-inmates trying to stay off drugs slip repeatedly, even the ones who eventually succeed. "It's like having a disease, like cancer," Sanders says now. "You can put it in remission, but it can come back, like a demon...
After Sanders began using crack again, the fissures in the rest of his life widened. In April he was fired by the gas station for being too friendly with female customers. Then he did something he never would have done 10 years ago. "One Sunday morning I found myself on the corner looking for drugs when I should have been in church," he says. "I just knew it was not my destiny." Two days later, he took the subway to see his parole officer and turned himself...
...close to No. 1—it wasn’t even in the top 10 at midseason. No. 3 Minnesota is averaging over 1,800, while North Dakota and No. 2 Minnesota-Duluth have flirted with the 1,000 mark. The paltry Harvard fan support has failed to crack the upper half of the Ivies with Dartmouth, Brown and Princeton all posting better numbers...