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DIED. MAURICE WILKINS, 88, British Nobel laureate who helped discover the double-helix structure of DNA; in London. With his colleague (and frequent adversary) Rosalind Franklin at King's College in London, he came up with a clear X-ray image of DNA. Within weeks of receiving the photograph, James Watson and Francis Crick built a model of the giant molecule's double-spiral structure. Watson, Crick and Wilkins later shared the Nobel Prize for Medicine...
...they are given other tasks: writing letters to the editor, calling talk radio, distributing yard signs. The campaign watches their quotas closely all the while for indications of flagging interest. The reward for a job well done might be the best seats at a Bush rally or a signed photograph from the President...
Having successfully repressed much of my high school experience, I’d managed to go several years without thinking about that aerial photograph. Last week, though, I was forcibly reminded of it. As part of a get-out-the-youth-vote drive, a couple of well-intentioned seniors arranged for everyone in Winthrop House to wear T-shirts that said “I Decide” on Wednesday. We’d then march to the Weeks Footbridge to take a photograph of us massed there, thus reminding everyone of the importance of the youth vote. Also, more...
...that we were window-dressing. The problem was the vague sense of self-satisfaction that hovered over us on the football field and on the bridge. There is a sort of grief that is too deep, and there are problems that are too vast, to be solved with a photograph...
...it’s the sense of self-satisfaction that blinds us to this, and that prevents us from being more constructive. Copies of the photograph of us on the football field hung, curling, from bulletin boards for years; I suspect that copies of the photograph of Winthrop House arrayed on the footbridge will share a similar fate...