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...Commemorating the 50th anniversary of the discovery of the double helical structure of DNA by James Watson and Francis Crick, the conference kicked off with four preliminary ?tutorials? on topics that are a direct outgrowth of their momentous achievement...
...befitting a gathering marking the Watson-Crick discovery, the star of the first day?s proceedings turned out to be (who else?) James Watson. (His erstwhile partner, Francis Crick, passed up the chance to appear.) In a public conversation with ABC News correspondent Robert Krulwich at the Monterey Bay Aquarium, Watson wittily retraced the unfolding of the great event 50 years ago, along with some personal history. Insisting that he was not particularly brilliant, he recalled how, as a 13-year-old radio Quiz Kid, he was knocked off the show after only three appearances by a seven-year...
...this collaboration has served as a warm-up for the big event we have planned for next month. Feb. 28 will mark the 50th anniversary of one of the signal achievements of 20th century science: the discovery of the structure of DNA by James Watson and Francis Crick. We're going to be celebrating that breakthrough both in the magazine and, starting Feb. 19, in Monterey, Calif., where Watson and TIME president Eileen Naughton will be the hosts of a three-day conference called The Future of Life...
...hand treatment while getting your teeth cleaned. Or you can slip on some virtual-reality glasses and watch your favorite movie. Or you might just lie back and let the scent of lavender and the sound of falling water quiet your anxiety, while a licensed massage therapist eases the crick in your neck...
...Little Acre," Erskine Caldwell's novels of the dirt-poor, lubricious South, where the men are mean and the women are willin', where everyone quotes the Bible and nobody follows its Commandments. There isn't much skin in the movie, just a midnight bath in the old crick, but what's there is cherce; for Meyer's leading lady, Barbara Joy (whom he rechristened Lorna Maitland, after her character), possessed a pretty, persuasively sullen face - and, more to the points, a hefty bosom that flouted all known laws of thermodynamics...