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They were kindred minds as well as spirits. On a vacation to Brazil, he took James Watson's 1,100-page textbook, Molecular Biology of the Gene, and they studied bioengineering together. On another vacation, to a Santa Barbara, California, ranch, she took tapes of Richard Feynman's lectures at Cornell, and they studied physics. And on a larger excursion with friends to central Africa, which ended at some beach cottages on an island off Zanzibar, among their companions was anthropologist Donald Johanson, known for his work on the human ancestor Lucy, who helped teach them about human evolution...
RONALD REAGAN Back at the ranch, he'll recover slightly when a cure for Alzheimer's is discovered. --Jim Hecker...
...villa--a mansion Mobutu visited just once, but kept ready for his imminent return--they found a house full of plastic "marble" and fake antiques. Other expressions of his grandeur are not so hollow: he owns chateaus in Spain and Belgium, a town house in Paris and a horse ranch in Portugal. Such abuse of his country's strained wealth eventually turned him into an international pariah...
Coss, the company's founder, keeps a low profile. A rider and an aficionado of Thoroughbred horses, he likes to relax on his South Dakota ranch or at another residence in Flagstaff, Arizona...
...Yeltsin's surgery last week, declared it to be "a great achievement." Suffering from arthritis, Barnard retired in 1983. Since then he has written a number of novels. His latest book, The Donor, was just published in England. Barnard spends a lot of time on a 32,000-acre ranch with his third wife, Karin, and their son, Armin. He was intrigued by DeBakey's visit but could not comment on Yeltsin's surgery, saying, "Right now I don't follow the news ... I'm a farmer with cattle and wild game to look after. I wish him luck...