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...game time, it had warmed up three degrees, to 13 below. In the stands, 50,000 Packer backers stuffed themselves into their flap-eared hats and sleeping bags. For the Dallas Cowboys, hell had frozen over. For fans gathered around their warm televisions, it was a frosty football treasure. Trailing 17-14 with seconds to go, the Pack pulled out the NFL title on QB Bart Starr's sneak...
Last week Van Allen was reviewing ozone measurements obtained a half-century ago, when Aerobee rockets carrying detectors he designed were shot high into the atmosphere. He's comparing the data with current ozone readings to determine what changes, if any, have occurred. "With the flap about the hole in the ozone layer," he says, "it's a very lively subject right...
...club last year, but the guiltless hours spent watching TV or picking up a book only in order to drop it on a cockroach are over. Oprah is reviving the club, but this time she will focus on the classics. This should help avoid any unpleasantness, such as the flap that arose with author Jonathan Franzen. After Oprah anointed his book The Corrections, Franzen expressed ambivalence about having his novel embraced by Oprah fans. By choosing works by Shakespeare, Faulkner, Hemingway and other dead people, she will probably circumvent such ingratitude...
...solution everyone can agree to by the March 31 deadline, agricultural interests and drug companies from the wealthy world show no signs of retreating. But if the WTO fails to make real progress soon, they may lose a more important war. Bring 'em All Back Home The current diplomatic flap over Iraq may be sparking American threats to boycott French companies, but one French organization hopes to siphon off some of the steam. Provence Promotion - an association that recruits new businesses to the Marseilles area - is trying to lure successful expats back from America. Since September, the Home Sweet Home...
...remained collaborators in name but essentially stopped talking. To find out what she was doing, Wilkins had to go to a seminar Franklin gave in November 1951. He invited Watson to come along. (Crick, whose interest in DNA was well known, thought it might cause too much of a flap if he showed up.) Wilkins had warned Watson that Franklin was difficult; for his part, Watson had a generally piggish attitude toward women at the time. He liked "popsies"--young, pretty things without brains--but strong, independent women rather baffled him. In The Double Helix, he puts Franklin down...