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...Charles Crane, an American businessman, bought the bells from the Soviets in the 1920s, saving them from ruin. He gave them to then University President A. Lawrence Lowell...
What I'm going to be doing is building a small, completely clear glass box. It'll be dangling from a crane near the River Thames. It'll be about 22 1/2 ft. up, about that, and I'll be hovering there for 44 days with absolutely nothing except for water to drink...
...packed Heroic Duo with sophisticated weaponry, high-speed car chases and dizzying stunts, including one stomach-quivering sequence in which a character traverses two skyscrapers using a wobbly, metal stepladder. Noticeably absent are high-wire kung fu acrobatics; Chan, who first gained notoriety with kung fu fantasy Magic Crane, apparently no longer wants anything to do with Chinamen in robes?unless they're behind the wheel of a Ferrari Testarossa...
...Sankoh took command of the Revolutionary United Front, which, from 1991 to 2001, made a trademark of hacking off the limbs of rival fighters and noncombatants before U.N. intervention forced a cease-fire. Sankoh, arrested in 2000, died while waiting to face war crime charges and, according to David Crane, chief prosecutor for the U.N.-sponsored war crimes court for Sierra Leone, was "granted a peaceful end that he denied to so many others...
...companies in its brief past, the biotech industry each year grows closer to losing sway with the moneymen who fund its research. Even though biotech stocks have been moving up this year, among critical pre-ipo investors like venture-capital funds "there's a lot of fear," says Alan Crane, ceo of Momenta Pharmaceuticals, an early-stage drug-discovery firm. "There's a lot of concern about losing your money." Mullen's focus on diverse products, production synergies and profitability is already part of the culture at top industry players Amgen and Genentech. Biogen's Avonex for multiple sclerosis...