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...After reading "What Makes Us Different?" [Dec. 4], I was struck by the idea that the blueprint for the great achievements of humanity may be encoded in the nucleotides of our DNA. But is it possible that the source of human creativity is simply beyond our comprehension? When I marvel at a Mozart adagio or Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling, I simply cannot grasp how each artist accomplished what he did. Human genius amazes because it is a mystery; if science could explain how genius came to be, the wonder would be gone. Nathaniel M. Campbell Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts...
Coming to every theater near you on May 4: Spider-Man 3. (The first two films about the Marvel Comics kid with the gooey arms took in $1.6 billion worldwide.) Then on May 18, Shrek the Third. (Total gross of the first two chapters: $1.4 billion.) And a week later, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End. (The first two earned more than $1.7 billion.) That's close to $5 billion for the six movies, not including the really easy money in DVD revenue. How big the bucks for Take 3 in each of the gigan-chises...
...member of the pair decks the halls, the bedroom, the bathroom and the lobby. For Mary, it's a sacred mission that takes weeks. And while she dresses the tree, I listen again to the renditions of these songs - which from time to time have made me cringe - and marvel at their emotive and staying power. The albums are listed in chronological order of their original release...
While the Math 55 students may marvel at their professor, they have attracted their own dedicated admirers in the freshman class. “Even though we have all this work,” Harrison says with pride, “when we’re in the War Room and all the Math 25 and 23 kids are down there, there has never been a time when people ask us for help and we say we’re too busy. We always help people...
DIED. Dave Cockrum, 63, comic-book illustrator whose characters revitalized the X-Men in the '70s and helped build the title into a lucrative colossus, spawning toys, video games and a film franchise; of complications from diabetes; in Belton, S.C. Cockrum, who grew up reading Captain Marvel, got his big break inking DC Comics' Legion of Super-Heroes strip. After moving to Marvel, he created, with writer Len Wein, such X-Men as the weather-manipulating Storm, below, who was played by Halle Berry on the big screen. When asked why he worked in comics rather than another art form...