Word: cricks
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...other great theoretical breakthrough of this century was the discovery by James Watson and Francis Crick of the self-replicating structure of DNA. Their thinking may make the 21st century a century of biotechnology, one marked by the manipulation of DNA in ways that produce everything from customized drugs to human clones...
JAMES D. WATSON, who contributed an essay on why genetic engineers must ignore the naysayers and forge ahead, is famous even among those who barely made it through high school biology for his and Francis Crick's 1953 discovery that DNA molecules arrange themselves in a double helix. That breakthrough earned them a Nobel Prize and made it possible to trace at the molecular level how cells organize hereditary information. In October, Watson drove in from the Long Island, N.Y., Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, where he has worked for nearly three decades, to speak to TIME's reporters and editors...
...turned silicon into computing power. It's time to ring in the century of biotechnology. Just as the discovery of the electron in 1897 was a seminal event for the 20th century, the seeds for the 21st century were spawned in 1953, when James Watson blurted out to Francis Crick how four nucleic acids could pair to form the self-copying code of a DNA molecule. Now we're just a few years away from one of the most important breakthroughs of all time: deciphering the human genome, the 100,000 genes encoded by 3 billion chemical pairs...
James Watson and Francis Crick won a Nobel Prize for Medicine for their 1953 discovery of the structure of DNA. Watson was the first director of the Human Genome Project; he now serves as president of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Sophomore Andrew Styperek, playing in the B-flight singles, lost a tantalizingly close first match. Serving at 5-5 in the third set, he broke two strings, and dropped the game. His opponent, Nathan Crick of Illinois State, capitalized on Styperek's bad luck, and held serve to take the third set 7-5. Styperek bounced back to win three matches in the consolation round...