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...called him a "national hero." North became an overnight television star when he appeared in his uniform and medals and began his often emotional testimony by saying "I came here to tell you the truth -- the good, the bad and the ugly." North admitted he had engaged in international fund raising for the contras, a campaign that included his staging slide shows for would-be donors. Other officials cadged money from foreign millionaires like the Sultan of Brunei (with characteristic adroitness, the fund raisers temporarily lost the Sultan's $10 million donation, which turned up in the wrong Swiss bank...
...Perhaps the most important result of this research," says Peter Goodfellow, of London's Imperial Cancer Research Fund, whose lab had predicted the gene's location, "is that it could provide a model system for development in general." Explains UCLA's Shapiro: "It's not just a question of triggering the growth of gonads. It's how a cell decides whether it becomes a muscle cell or a skin cell...
...National Geographic Society has been a noteworthy force in scientific innovation. As it prepares to celebrate its 100th anniversary with a centennial issue of the magazine, scientific symposiums and special exhibits in Washington, it can look back on a distinguished record of accomplishment. Since 1890 it has helped fund some 3,300 research projects and expeditions, from Commander Robert Peary's 1909 trek to the North Pole to Marine Geologist Robert Ballard's 1986 exploration of the wreck of the Titanic. The society was the first American publisher to set up a color photo lab (1920), the first to feature...
...snickered at the black dress with rhinestone belt buckle that Raisa had worn to the late-morning coffee. "A bit cocktailish, don't you think?" one said. White House officials were also miffed that Raisa chose to set up a colloquy with prominent women at the home of Democratic Fund Raiser Pamela Harriman. Among the guests: Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, University of Chicago President Hanna Gray, Publisher Katharine Graham and Senators Barbara Mikulski and Nancy Kassebaum. Nonetheless, by the end of the summit, official patch-up stories were issuing from the White House. Raisa, it was said...
...Lecturing, performing, always accessible to the young (and the press), Beuys was the Pied Piper of postwar German esthetic renewal. One does not need to accept his message that everyone is some sort of artist to recognize his achievement in giving back to Kiefer's generation the vast fund of German imagery, the sense of the primordial and the ritual that had been corrupted, made almost radioactive, by Nazism. Thanks to Beuys, younger German artists were able to connect with their own history and think about it without illusion, and Kiefer's work is the fruit of that process...