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...Feet Under: Peter Krause...
...impeccably acted "Six Feet Under" got nominations not just for its traditonal leading-man and -woman types (Peter Krause and Rachel Griffiths) but for its two real standouts, Michael C. Hall and Frances Conroy; the two of them take the kind of repressed characters that creator Alan Ball made into cartoons in "American Beauty" and give them surprise and whimsy and nuance. A supporting-actor slot went to another master of complex repression, "Alias'" Victor Garber, who as Jennifer Garner's enigmatic spy dad communicates more emotion in one tensed frown than Martin Sheen in an entire season of Oval...
...explains. Her aim of "meshing science with society" has something of the zeal of the convert. "I'd like to see people attending scientific discussions the way they would go to a concert or the cinema," says Greenfield, who is married to fellow scientist and textbook author Peter Atkins. If anyone can persuade the public to devote their Saturday nights to science, she will. Q&A TIME: How can marijuana "blow the mind"? Greenfield : Drugs interfere with the careful interplay of chemical and electrical impulses between cells, throwing out the balance of the brain either by causing too many chemicals...
...promoting wind energy since the 1970s, tiny Denmark has become the world leader in production of wind technology. Last year Danish companies controlled more than 50% of the worldwide market for wind-energy technology. "Our overall goal is to make Denmark into the Silicon Valley of wind turbines," says Peter Hjuler Jensen, head of the wind program at the Ris? National Laboratory outside Copenhagen. Denmark is not the only European country to have bet heavily on the breeze. Germany now has the world's largest installed base of wind turbines, totaling 8,734 megawatts, which reflects average growth...
...spent 17 minutes on the phone with CEO Sam Waksal, records show. Waksal had just learned that the FDA would announce its negative decision on Erbitux in two days. Later that night Waksal drafted a note, marked "Urgent--Immediate Attention Required," to his Merrill Lynch broker, Peter Bacanovic, sources say. Stopped from trading by the firm's blackout, Waksal gave instructions to transfer $4.9 million in stock to the account of his younger daughter Aliza Waksal. At 8:30 the next morning, he called Aliza, phone records show. She called Bacanovic's aide at 9 a.m with orders to sell...