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...rebuke to today's 24-hour news culture. Announcing J.F.K.'s death, Cronkite chokes back tears, but he does not--as many anchors did on 9/11 and less momentous occasions--ostentatiously remind his viewers that he shares their pain. Yet when you watch Jack Ruby shoot Lee Harvey Oswald live on the air, leaving reporters spinning to fill time with little information, you see why this is such a special anniversary for TV. It was a week when a President died--and the logorrheic age of instant news began...
DIED. LADY DIANA MOSLEY, 93, most scandalous and, some thought, most beautiful of the six famous Mitford sisters; in Paris. She left her first husband, heir to the Guinness brewing fortune, to run away with Sir Oswald Mosley, the widely hated head of Britain's fascist party. After spending some of the war years in a London prison, she and her husband moved to Paris, where she continued to dazzle her frequent guests and write rigorous book reviews. Of Hitler, she said, in 2000, "I was fond of him. Very, very fond...
...Robin Hemley, in his book Invented Eden, asks if someone did just that. In 1986, a Swiss reporter named Oswald Iten returned to the rain forest and found the Tasaday wearing Levi's jeans and T shirts. They said that they were local farmers who had been coerced previously into playing cavemen. A few weeks later, a team from Der Stern arrived, led by the Tasaday's original discoverer, and found them once again wearing leaves. That, supposedly, proved they were fake. Comparisons were drawn with Piltdown Man, the great paleoanthropological hoax of the early 20th century...
...coma, then died. The couple had already arranged for a double coffin. Since the couple's death, Jennifer Stokes' mother and sister have demanded that Dignitas be shut down. British M.P.s have called for an investigation. "It's a terrible signal, for patients and doctors, and for Switzerland," says Oswald Oelz, chief of internal medicine at Triemli Hospital in Zurich. Minelli scoffs at the outcry. "All this is bullshit," he says. "The bottom line is, we should all have the freedom to end our own lives if we are convinced our suffering is unbearable to us." Minelli declined to comment...
...which the code might be especially easy to find. By then, scientists had strong evidence that Schrodinger's genetic code was carried by DNA, thanks to a series of brilliant experiments on pneumococcal bacteria, first by Fred Griffith of the British Health Ministry and later by Oswald Avery at the Rockefeller Institute (now Rockefeller University) in New York City...