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...river Cam, at meals at the Cricks' flat, at the Eagle and, of course, in the lab, where their incessant chatter drove their colleagues crazy. (Watson and Crick were quickly relegated to a separate office, where they would disturb only each other.) Most important, both were as tenacious as pit bulls. Once they clamped their minds onto the problem of DNA structure, they couldn't let go until they solved it--or someone else got there first...
Though he called the new version a “radical redesign,” Turner said that he doesn’t “think that you have to pit one [version] against the other,” since the site’s focus remains essentially the same...
...York City in December, preserves the entire 70-ft.-deep basin as a kind of primordial imprint of the towers. Part burnt offering, part wailing wall, the basin testifies to calamity, but it stands--muscular proof that New York lives and life prevails. Libeskind's plan would surround that pit with a force field of angular towers at street level. The workaday world could carry on its business without trampling the memory of the dead...
...tried to introduce the tape - which he says came from a hostage - into evidence, but Gorbacheva declined. "It's just footage of what was happening in the theater hall," he says. "How they lived there under the guns, how they were humiliated when they had to use the orchestra pit as a lavatory." Trunov plans to appeal the case to the Russian Supreme Court, and to the European Court of Human Rights. While acknowledging sympathy with the plaintiffs, Rastorguyev insists that officials are not responsible. If he had said "irresponsible," Trunov would have agreed...
...missile, though 15 died of heart attacks, suffocation in their gas masks or reaction to a chemical-weapon antidote that some took in a panic. Pentagon planners are worried that in a new war, if Saddam again hits Israel with missiles--wishing to ignite a wider conflict that would pit Muslim nations against the U.S. and Israel--Washington would be unable to convince the Israeli government, as it did in 1991, that it should refrain from retaliating. If Israel launched a counterstrike, U.S. officials fear, America's Arab allies would find it difficult to align with Washington...