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MILESTONES: Al-Qaeda suspect arrested; former Mob boss convicted; Pop Rocks inventor dies; Crick remembered by Watson...
...death of FRANCIS CRICK deprives the world of a remarkable scientist and conversationalist whose forceful voice and overpowering laugh made him the focal point of any room that he chose to occupy. From the morning of Feb. 28, 1953, when he and I discovered the double-helical structure of DNA?and showed that the secret of life was a large molecule?he held court over the new field of research that this discovery unleashed. Exuding an Edwardian elegance of logic as well as dress, he instantly brought to mind the good-natured arrogance of Henry Higgins in George Bernard Shaw...
...Clark has plenty of Southern tales. He told me about blasting cans in a crick--"You'd throw the beer can and take the pistol, and bang"--and, having grown up in Arkansas myself, I recounted freezing duck hunts on the Cache River. But Clark trumped me. He launched into a "Mama-thon"--how "beautiful" she was, how "capable." There was even a Faulknerian touch. "She wasn't good with babies, let's put it that way," he said of the late Veneta Clark, who became a working mother after Clark's dad died of a heart attack when...
Drug-sluts of the world, unite! Hyper-active student activist Gabby G. Crick ’05 has learned not to mix business with pleasure the hard way. She suspects her weed man of a hit and run. The morning after a late night herbal acquisition, Crick couldn’t locate her new stash and assumed her dealer swiped it, despite the 17 joint butts in her ash tray that speak to the contrary. Says Crick, “What a chauvinist thing to do—he comes to my room, sells...
...Jack Rusher [’89] was always pressing, ‘Are we as good as the Rude and Smooth?’” Crick laughed in response. “And that’s what keeps the whole thing going, that we’re all striving to be as good as those who came before us. Harry never sets the bar where it is—you have to guess where it is and everyone jumps over and that’s what keeps the ball rolling...