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...nominated comedy, with 10 bids. The nominations were announced this morning, and the Emmy ceremony will be broadcast on NBC Sunday, Sept. 13. Other top nominees included NBC's medical drama "ER" and Fox's "The X-Files," each with 16 bids, and NBC's miniseries "Merlin," with...
...intense affair in the 1860s with a young Greek woman named Maria Zambaco, daughter of one of his London patrons. He cast her as a full-blown Medusan charmer, snakes twisting in her hair, and himself as the weakened magician under her spell, in The Beguiling of Merlin, 1873-74--King Arthur's court sorcerer reduced to hollow-eyed impotence by a magic fiercer than his own. "Now isn't that very funny," he wrote to a friend 20 years after finishing it, "as [Zambaco] was born at the foot of Olympus and looked and was primaeval and that...
This new-product cycle has a number of pros bullish on the sector. Sensing opportunity, New York investor Stuart Wiesbrod founded Merlin Biomed, a private health-care fund, just three months ago. He estimates that the entire biotech industry has a stock-market value of about $110 billion. That's less than the market value of one big drug company like Merck or Pfizer, each with market values around $140 billion. Yet the biotech industry has 600 drugs in advanced development, vs. maybe 20 for each big drug company...
Many senior career switchers are out to change the world as well. Merlin Petzold, 63, a retired General Motors engineer in Cascade Township, Mich., builds user-friendly telephones for people with disabilities. Inspired by his wife Nadine, a multiple-sclerosis patient, Petzold fitted out a standard phone with straws and tubes that allow users to puff for a dial tone and sip in order to dial a preset number, such as 911. Petzold's nonprofit company, Envirotrol, builds as many as 70 such phones a year for customers in the U.S. and as far away as Peru and Saudi Arabia...
Just as in Mark of Merlin, McCaffrey often finds inspiration for her stories in real life. Although she did not realize it at the time, The Ship Who Sang, McCaffrey's acknowledged favorite of all her books, was written as therapy for her father's death...