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...departing professor, who joined Harvard's faculty in 1965 and received tenure in 1969, is also the founder and director of the Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology at the Research Center of Crete. He will resign all of his other positions when he takes over at EMBL...
Kafatos, also professor of Biology at the University of Crete, said his award will take him to Cambridge University to study and research at the school's department of genetics...
...Continent's southern flank, villages on the Aegean islands were busily trading olive oil, wine and pottery with the Greek mainland and Crete. In Crete fashionable women sported ankle-length dresses, with necklines low enough to make Madonna blush. (The art of weaving originated more than a millennium earlier.) And in the Balkans metallurgists were hard at work crafting elaborate tools of lead, copper and iron and spectacular ornaments of gold...
After 10 months of hearings, more than 100 witnesses and 50,000 pages of documents, the epic trial of former socialist Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou in the $210 million Bank of Crete scandal came to an end last week. The colossal tangle helped topple his flamboyant eight-year rule in 1989, but the court acquitted...
Landford, a former director of the Massacusetts Institute of Technology's innovative Daedalus Project, developed a human-powered aircraft that flew record-breaking distances over the Greek islands Crete and Santorini...