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...Medicine to Briton Richard Roberts, 50, and M.I.T.'s Phillip Sharp, 49, whose studies of the structure of genes led to new theories about how creatures evolve and why genes go awry. Half the Chemistry award was won by Kary B. Mullis, 48, who created the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) as a means of copying fragments of DNA. The other half went to Michael Smith for related discoveries...
...musicians reject show-biz glitz. They support progressive social causes. Many of them avoid dating groupies and models. Their music is usually guitar-driven, with experimental touches. While pop songs are often about love, alternative lyrics are usually about tougher feelings: despair, lust, confusion. Alternative rock is a reaction, especially among the twentysomething generation, to all the years of being subjected to Madonna's changing hair color and MTV close-ups of George Michael's butt...
...decades gone by. They tend to be antisexist, pro-tolerance and pro- underdog, whether it's animals or humans. The same goes for female rockers. When Chicago hyperintellectual singer Liz Phair, 26, played her explicit debut album Exile from Guyville for her parents, she was surprised at the reaction. "The first time my mother heard it, she wept," says Phair. "Not because she was shocked, but because she was so moved at hearing something so revealing from her daughter...
...Sinowatz unexpectedly resigned, vowing to devote himself to rebuilding his tattered party. His replacement: Finance Minister Franz Vranitzky. By midweek three more Socialist ministers had quit their posts, among them Foreign Minister Leopold Gratz, who refused to ''direct the Austrian foreign service in the defense of President Waldheim.'' International reaction to the electoral triumph of the former U.N. Secretary-General was not much warmer. Official congratulations were withheld by Yugoslavia, Albania, Greece and the Netherlands. President Reagan sent what his aides described as a ''correct'' message. In both the U.S. and Britain, legislators suggested that Waldheim be barred from their...
Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock in the streets of San Francisco? The surprise is there was no surprise. Not a San Franciscan eye batted while the makers of Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home used a hidden camera to record man-in-the-street reaction to Kirk's glowing wine-red suit or Spock's white robe and ear- covering headband. Just didn't seem strange enough to stand out in the city by the bay. ''One lady even approached me after watching the shoot,'' reports Leonard Nimoy (Spock), ''and said, 'I thought you were a monk or a priest...