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...Korean Cloner Hwang is down but not out Cloning pioneer Hwang Woo Suk admitted in court last week that he falsified much of his data. He could get three years in jail, a prospect that doesn't seem to daunt him; he plans to open a new lab in Seoul this month...
...theory was one of history's most imaginative and dramatic revisions of our concepts about the universe. It was, said Paul Dirac, the Nobel laureate pioneer of quantum mechanics, "probably the greatest scientific discovery ever made." Max Born, another giant of 20th century physics, called it "the greatest feat of human thinking about nature, the most amazing combination of philosophical penetration, physical intuition and mathematical skill...
DIED. LLOYD RICHARDS, 87, pioneer of African-American theater and Broadway's first black director; of heart failure; in Manhattan. The son of a Jamaican carpenter, he studied theater in college, was named artistic director of the National Playwrights Conference in 1968, and in 1979 was appointed dean of the Yale School of Drama. Richards was an unknown director in 1959 when he staged the first Broadway production of Lorraine Hansberry's groundbreaking play A Raisin in the Sun. An inspiring drama teacher and cultivator of young talent, he championed such young playwrights as Wendy Wasserstein, David Henry Hwang...
DIED. Arthur Widmer, 92, special-effects pioneer who developed "blue screen" technology, enabling two images shot separately to be combined smoothly into one; in Los Angeles. For his work, he was honored last year with an Oscar for lifetime achievement...
Lascaux might have escaped history and its indignities if four boys rambling on a hillside just east of the Vezere River in southwestern France in 1940 had not decided to investigate an opening revealed by a fallen tree. Soon Abbe Henri Breuil, a pioneer in the study of Paleolithic cave art, arrived to inspect their extraordinary find. He theorized that Lascaux's broad galleries might indicate a magical or religious function for the drawings; Lascaux became known as the "Sistine Chapel of prehistory," and people clamored to see it. After the war, the La Rochefoucauld family, which owned the property...