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...Charles M. Schulz, the father of Charlie Brown has retired after 50 years. So Snoopy and Linus have been dead...
...should Watson and Crick be Persons of the Century? Perhaps. But two factors count against them. Their role, unlike that of Einstein or Churchill, would have been performed by others if they hadn't been around; indeed, competitor Linus Pauling was just months away from shouting the same eureka!. In addition, although the next century may be, this did not turn out to be a century of genetic engineering...
With that theme of loving losers--even Charlie Brown's baseball idol, Joe Shlabotnik, was the worst player in the pros--came the corollary, losing at love. Every major character has an unrequited love--Charlie Brown and the little red-haired girl, Lucy and Schroeder, Linus and Miss Othmar. Even Snoopy got dumped at the altar. Happiness may be a warm puppy, but as Schulz once said, "Happiness is not very funny." Schulz infused the strips with his lifelong feelings of depression and insecurity--he had his heart broken by a real-life red-haired girl--and they showed, Camus...
...LINUX November's anti-Microsoft court ruling was the icing on the cake for Linus Torvalds' operating system. Because it is "open source"--anyone can fix bugs in its code--Linux is the least crash-prone system around. That makes it a credible alternative to Windows...
...Alison M. Kraus Gregory S. Krauss Justin M. Krebs Praveen S. Krishna Taissa N. Kuncio Ilana N. Kurshan Jennifer C. Laine Sukanya Lahiri India F. Landrigan Eugenie A. Lang Melissa R. Langsam Benjamin A. Lanson Carmelo Larose Garrett L. Law Bryan S. Lee Joseph J. Lee Laura T. Lee Linus Lee William S. Lee Adrienne Leight Jessica Leino Franklin J. Leonard Zachary D. Levenick Sarah A. Levin Matthew S. Levine Vincent G. Levy Benjamin R. Lewis Oliver M. Lewis Winifred M. Li Evagelos G. Liaras Ari M. Lipman Rita F. Lin Jennifer Chian-Hua Liu Ben A. Loehnen Daniel...