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That leaves--fanfare, please--the French. Their role throughout the Iraq crisis has baffled and frequently infuriated observers. In the fall, when French diplomats were crucial to the drafting of Security Council Resolution 1441, President Jacques Chirac cleverly positioned himself close to the Bush Administration while maintaining a degree of independence. But in the past few weeks, the French line against a war has hardened, and on Jan. 20, Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin went out of his way, without warning Powell, to oppose a rush to war in a public ambush...
...wasn't just the clarity of Franklin's picture that excited Watson. It was also the fact that the pattern repeated itself every 34 angstroms (an angstrom is one ten-billionth of a meter). That gave Crick and Watson crucial information about the angles between bonded molecules. Even better, the image suggested that the bases attached to the backbone were neatly stacked one on top of the other...
...More important, they evidently also learned that the King's group had prepared a report on its DNA studies for the Medical Research Council, which funded the work. It wasn't a confidential document, so Watson and Crick got hold of a copy. In it were some more crucial clues, including the fact that DNA had a particular type of structural symmetry that implied that the molecule was made of two chains running in opposite directions...
...versions of translations published during Longfellow’s life, Pearl chose the 1867 edition since it was the same text of the Inferno that the first Americans reading Dante would have seen. A large portion of the companion book is Longfellow’s notes, which serve as crucial guideposts throughout the text...
Pertile says the “living” quality of Pearl’s book is crucial to its success...