Word: helix
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Double Helix, Watson...
...Rickenbacker, Rickenbacker 10. The Double Helix, Watson...
...Double Helix, Watson...
Married. James D. Watson, 40, who shared a 1962 Nobel prize for medicine with two Britons for unraveling the structure of DNA, the heredity-determining molecule, recently disturbed his colleagues by publishing The Double Helix, a gossipy account of the team's feuds and finds; and Elizabeth Lewis, 19, a Radcliffe junior and Watson's secretary at Harvard; both for the first time; in La Jolla, Calif...
...social, and technological--Stanley Kubrick's huge and provocative 2001: A Space Odyssey remains essentially linear until its extraordinary ending. In the final transfiguration, director Kubrick and co-author Arthur Clarke (Childhood's End) suggest that evolutionary progress may in face be cyclical, perhaps in the shape of a helix formation. Man progresses to a certain point in evolution, then begins again from scratch on a higher level. Much of 2001's conceptual originality derives from its being both anti-Christian and anti-evolutionary in its theme of man's progress controlled by an ambiguous extra-terrestrial force, possibly both...