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...brash and brilliant 23-year-old was obsessed with DNA. He had originally set out to become a naturalist (since childhood, he had had an interest in birds), but during his third year at the University of Chicago, Watson read a book titled What Is Life?, by Erwin Schrodinger, a founder of quantum physics. Stepping boldly outside his field of expertise, Schrodinger argued that one of life's essential features is the storage and transmission of information--that is, a genetic code that passes from parent to child. And because it had to be both complex and compact enough...
...first husband John Brahm, she played the Lillian Gish role; then she was offered a three-year Hollywood contract by Myron Selznick (whose father had hired the teenage Hirschfeld). But she made no films in California. She came to New York, appearing in plays by the German ?migr? Erwin Piscator. It was there she met, and in 1943 married, the man referred to in the Google translation of a German-language Dolly Haas website as "the well-known caricaturist aluminum deer field...
When I get off the trail, Erwin Myles, head of natural resources for the Nez Perce, is waiting for me. We go salmon fishing together--his tribe has fishing rights on the Rapid River, part of the Columbia River system. Like many Indians, Myles is ambivalent about celebrating the discoveries of Lewis and Clark. But compared with the vandals who desecrated the Smoking Place, he sees the two captains as models of diplomacy. "There's much to be learned from how people conducted themselves a long time ago," he says. For the Nez Perce, it is about respect--respect...
Wall Street's recent drug addiction strikes some as ironic. Robert Erwin, CEO of the Vaca Valley, Calif., biotech firm Large Scale Biology, recalls being told all last year that investors were interested only in hearing about his company's technology. "Now the advice I get is, 'Don't talk about your technology. People only want to hear about your products...
...Liberty. Small tables dot the area and make it feel more like an Italian piazza than a sterile airport food court. What's particularly refreshing is the distinctive food offerings, such as the first-ever airport Sylvia's, a branch of the famous Harlem soul-food restaurant, and Erwin's Glatt Kosher Deli. This airport wants you to visit: the so-called dwell time, the minutes you spend pre- or postflight, is estimated to be a longer-than-average four hours...