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...Inch By Inch...
George Gamow, a prominent theoretical physicist, is one recurring figure in the story. Watson describes him as a “six-foot, six-inch giant” who “defied conventional description with his penchant for tricks that masked a mind that always thought big.” With Gamow, Watson founded the RNA Tie Club, a group of twenty scientists—one for each amino acid—who sought to understand the purpose of RNA. Watson’s descriptions of many of these scientists often zero in on their idiosyncracies and help personalize...
Philosophy on decorating Harvard rooms: If you have a wall, use it. Fill up every possible square inch of space with a picture or postcard...
...early ‘90’s] European magazines promoted this anti-fashion in response to over-hyped American fashion.” His show is about the emergence of beauty in fashion and photography. His work on display consists of nine striking 41 x 29 inch photos, all of a muscular blond man in various surroundings. In the photographs, the model reclines on a bed, eats chocolate, sits in the driver’s seat of a car and pushes a lawn mower. Some of the prints are slightly blurred, while others are sharply defined...
...often still quite small. About the smallest tumor a mammogram can pick up is 0.5 cm to 1 cm (0.2 in. to 0.4 in.) in diameter. By contrast, the average cancers that are felt either by women or their physicians are around 2.5 cm, or about an inch. Even though mammograms still miss about 10% of all tumors, it's their ability to spot smaller tumors, which are generally easier to treat, that keeps women coming back for their annual appointment...