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...bioeconomy opened for business in 1953, when Francis Crick and James Watson identified the double-helix structure of DNA. The bioeconomy has been in its first quarter ever since, and completion and publication of the decoded human genome marks the end of this gestation period...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Will Replace The Tech Economy? | 5/22/2000 | See Source »

...ancestors. Sir Rutheven has faked his own death and has disguised himself as the sweet, disarming young farmer Robin Oakapple, who has such low self-esteem that he cannot confess his love to Rose without the help of his long-lost foster brother, the entertaining sailor Richard Dauntless (Francis Crick '03). Angle is ideally cast as the naive, helpless Robin, who becomes even more inept at doing his daily evil deed once his true identity is revealed, although he is creative in his short-lived crime spree, managing to disinherit his unborn son and forge one of his servant...

Author: By Marcelline Block, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Topsy-Turvy Marriage | 4/14/2000 | See Source »

Rosemary Peters Crick, who is in her eighth year of graduate study in French, said the application process is rather brutal...

Author: By Keramet A. Reiter, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: And You Thought It Was Hard to Get into Harvard College! | 3/16/2000 | See Source »

...Peters Crick said her decision to attend was based on Harvard's offer of tuition, which was far superior to the University of Virginia's, where she had considered studying English...

Author: By Keramet A. Reiter, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: And You Thought It Was Hard to Get into Harvard College! | 3/16/2000 | See Source »

Alas, unlike Francis Crick, I can't claim to have discovered the secret I'm touting. It was discovered half a century ago by the founders of game theory, John von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern. They made a distinction between zero-sum games and non-zero-sum games. In zero-sum games, the fortunes of the players are inversely related. In tennis, in chess, in boxing, one contestant's gain is the other's loss. In non-zero-sum games, one player's gain needn't be bad news for the other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Games Species Play | 1/24/2000 | See Source »

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