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...them with others, to a point where Watson and Crick were forced to go around her to get at her data. According to Maddox, however, Franklin was perfectly capable of interpreting the X-ray images, although she was slow to come around to the helical model of DNA's dryer, more crystalline A form, in which the structure is harder to see. Be that as it may, Maddox argues, Watson and Crick appropriated Franklin's work without her permission and without proper acknowledgment. And Maddox goes further: she argues that Franklin was close to seeing the whole picture herself...
...pollution all around us. Companies as sophisticated as Dow or GE, first-rate companies, will produce good, responsible products. But technological change won't automatically bring about environmental protection. Consider product tagging, which is about to expand in the market in a big way. You buy a hair dryer at the drugstore, and there's a gizmo on the box that looks like a circuit or a circle of wires, and it sets off a buzzer if you leave without paying--that's one variety of product...
...were immune to smallpox. Since the vaccine works for only four to five years, this suggests they had been inoculated relatively recently--perhaps as protection from their own biological weapons. There's more: U.N. inspectors who toured Iraq's illegal weapons sites in 1995 stumbled upon a freeze dryer candidly labeled SMALLPOX...
...While waiting for laundry to finish, take a spin in the dryer...
READ MY LIPS, being French, is wryer and dryer. A mousy, overworked executive secretary (Emmanuelle Devos) is given permission to hire a trainee-assistant. She chooses a newly paroled con (Vincent Cassel), a hunky lunk, but observant enough to divine her well-kept secret, which is that she is virtually deaf. She covers this defect by being an expert lip-reader. Now, this is a skill a bad guy can use. Soon she's perched on a rooftop, peering through binoculars, learning the secrets of a criminal gang whose ill-gotten gains he plans to heist. The comedic first part...