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...Senate returned Monday from a two-week midwinter recess and immediately ran into two sticky dilemmas: 1) explaining to the rest of America why we don't get congressional holidays, and 2) a judicial nomination stymied by an old-fashioned filibuster...
...figure out what genes were, and both were convinced that understanding the structure of DNA would help them do that. "Now, with me around the lab always wanting to talk about genes," writes Watson in The Double Helix, "Francis no longer kept his thoughts about DNA in a back recess of his brain ... No one should mind if, by spending only a few hours a week thinking about DNA, he helped me solve a smashingly important problem...
Tenured members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences will now be eligible for paid leave twice as often as in the past, Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby announced in a letter to the Faculty before winter recess...
...kind of booming personality that refuses to escape notice. At 13, she was unimpressed that her principal split his time between running her Lutheran school and teaching the seventh-and eighth-graders. If his administrative duties called, he would simply send them out for an hour-long recess. She complained so loudly that the principal was divested of his two hats and left the school a year or so later. "He needed to pay attention," she remembers, "or we weren't going to learn." Then, as now, Watkins voices her views firmly, and she never filibusters. "She always...
Cooper has always had a ferocious single-mindedness. In kindergarten, remembers her mother Patsy Ferrell, her teacher called home to complain that little Cynthia wanted to stay in and talk with the teachers during recess. At about the same age, Cooper became obsessed with getting a bike. But her parents felt she was too young and told her it was too expensive. Soon after, her mother found her hosing off her tricycle in the yard. She was planning to sell it so she could buy a two-wheeler. "You know, that was right pitiful, so we bought her the bike...