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Jerne's contribution to immunology is more fundamental. Born in London to Danish parents, he did not earn his M.D. until age 40, but, as the Nobel Committee observed, he quickly distinguished himself as "the great theoretician in immunology." His major theories explain how the immune system develops and matures and how its component cells are regulated. A modest man, Jerne remains less impressed with his achievement than with the object of his study. "The immune system now seems more complex than when I started out," he said last week. "I am less optimistic that we will ever...
...night devoted to singing, and the cast, conducted by the company's music director, James Levine, was a rich international assemblage that included the splendid Bulgarian soprano Anna Tomowa-Sintow as the gentle maiden Elsa, the fiery Hungarian soprano Eva Marton as the scheming Ortrud and the hearty Danish bass Aage Haugland as King Henry the Fowler. Most notable of all, as Lohengrin, the mysterious knight of the Holy Grail, it featured Placido Domingo on one of his rare forays into the German repertoire. What looked at first like a mismatch turned out to be a gamble that paid...
Once upon a time, in the Danish capital of Copenhagen, there lived two boys named Per and Mike. As they sat quaffing ale after ale one fine day, they happened on a picture of a sight beloved of all Danes: the bronze statue of Hans Christian Andersen's Little Mermaid in the city's harbor. Twenty springs earlier, this winsome lass had lost her head to vandals. On this summer evening, Per and Mike lost theirs. In the dead of night, the two boys stole up on the sculpture and sawed off her right...
...Samuel Fachlin--Moscow correspondent for Danish Broadcasting Corporation...
Another new procedure has made it possible to avoid the artificial-looking hairline left by transplants. Using a Danish technique, doctors can now insert plugs of just one or two hairs in front of an implanted area to simulate a natural hairline...