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...home. If there is any danger of her becoming a skating diva, her three elder brothers will dispel it. "They don't really pay attention to what I'm doing," she said during a break in her training last summer. Nate, a firefighter, learned about his sister's Axel feat last year only when a buddy in the firehouse saw the replay on ESPN and called him over...
...downhill, super-G) or technical events (slalom, giant slalom), Miller does it all. In the first race after his apology, Miller smoked the slalom part of the day's super combined event (downhill and slalom), putting him more than a second ahead of the field. It's an astonishing feat, given that most racers are separated by hundredths of seconds. He was, however, disqualified on a technicality, despite a U.S. protest...
BLEAK HOUSE PBS, SUNDAYS, 9 P.M. E.T. Even at eight hours, this adaptation of Charles Dickens' tale of an interminable inheritance case is quite nimble a feat for writer Andrew Davies. The Masterpiece Theatre coproduction captures the novel's satire, melodrama and horror-movie suspense without undercutting any of those disparate tones. Gillian Anderson is haunting as Lady Dedlock, a claimant tormented by the mystery of a long-lost lover. But the emotional heart of the story is Esther (Anna Maxwell Martin), the sensible orphan caught up in the suit. This is law drama such as Boston Legal's David...
...with a somewhat distressed-looking pilgrim in crimson. I knew I was in luck. After a polite request, he walked up to the door and positioned his posterior in front of the card reader. Magically, the door clicked open. I was amazed, and inquired how such a feat could be accomplished. “I don’t know,” he said, “some kind of chip or something.” These sophisticated IDs are called Prox-Cards, and it isn’t unreasonable to ask Harvard to install them in residential dorms...
Over the next year or so, the tale only got better. Hwang, aided by a tireless, dedicated and underpaid laboratory staff that venerated him, went on to create multiple lines of thriving stem cells with unprecedented efficiency and ease. He topped his performance off last summer with yet another feat that had eluded some of the world's most talented scientists: the first cloning of a dog, called Snuppy. TIME named Snuppy "Invention of the Year" for 2005, but that was merely the icing on a cake of praise and recognition for Hwang. Scientists from around the world were clamoring...