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...abiding by the stern moral rules that he set for the tribunal. In melodrama, of course, the villains always win; they're the ones who get to strut. Thus Brian Cox, as Goering, has his drollest mass-murderer role since he played Hannibal Lecter in the 1986 Manhunter; and Herbert Knaup (of Run, Lola, Run) is a handsomely conflicted Albert Speer...
...creative juices of science turned to how to read the messages of DNA. To our surprise, Frederick Sanger at Cambridge University and Walter Gilbert at Harvard, working independently, needed less than a decade to develop powerful methods for determining the order of DNA letters. At roughly the same time, Herbert Boyer and Stanley Cohen devised elegantly simple procedures for cutting and rejoining DNA molecules to produce "recombinant...
...will solve them at any cost. A fierce competitor, it was Grove who coined the term "Only the Paranoid Survive." Although a takeoff on the famous words of Social Darwinist Herbert Spencer, the phrase--which became the title of his 1994 best-selling book--has become a sort of mantra for the go-getters of the New Economy...
...that he could make vanish with a blithe demurral. In his 90s, when he might have sat at home with his lover Martin Hensler and his beloved Times crosswords, this old theatrical cat was often on a film set, spinning anecdotes of the legendary actor-managers Henry Irving and Herbert Beerbohm Tree. "When I was young," he said, "we wore our best suits to rehearsal and called the leading man 'Sir.' Now they wear jeans and call me John...
Grendel's owner, Herbert Keulzer, could only afford to reopen his establishment's basement bar--high rents forced him to relinquish control over his first-floor restaurant, he said...