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...threatening to queen a pawn, the world champion resigned. "I am not so depressed," Kramnik said afterward. "The result is not positive, but the game was a pleasure. I enjoyed the game. It was so beautiful." Other grand masters were dejected; they fear that the world champion has gone mad, as Kasparov did when facing Deep Blue in 1997. Perhaps the most nervous player of all is the anonymous British grand master who wagered 5,000 Euros on Kramnik on the gambling Web site www.betsson.com...
...They’ve run away with the Open/Close sign and stolen some chairs when they were mad that there wasn’t any more food being served...About once a month a student vomits right in the restaurant...
...distances to yield a three-dimensional diagram of the molecule?s shape. That lets biologists understand disease and drug proteins in a whole new way; it was W?thrich?s technique, for example that led to an understanding of the detailed structure of prions, which are involved in Mad Cow disease. It has also been used to help screen new compounds for their potential effectiveness as drugs. And along with Fenn?s and Tanaka?s work, it will make the flood of information flowing from the sequencing of the human genome a bit easier to manage...
...question of a big Hollywood movie would come along," says Watson, "they'd occasionally go, 'Who?' Others would go, 'Over our dead body.'" The 35-year-old actress, who has a throaty laugh several octaves below her normal speaking voice, says she was known around studios as "that mad, bad, dangerous girl who takes her clothes off and weeps a lot." But now Hollywood is taking a chance on that girl. In Red Dragon, Watson gives a heart-breaking performance as Reba, a young blind woman who seduces Ralph Fiennes' titular madman so thoroughly that he thinks twice about biting...
Siebel emphasizes that in uncertain times, she wants to help students find their artistic voice. “In a sort of Mad Max world, I want students to learn to use their voice visually whether or not they can find a venue to use it. I hope that if there were no galleries to show art that people would continue making it. The vitality of the art is that it comes from within, from a very authentic and real place...