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...death of FRANCIS CRICK deprives the world of a remarkable scientist and conversationalist whose forceful voice and overpowering laugh made him the focal point of any room that he chose to occupy. From the morning of Feb. 28, 1953, when he and I discovered the double-helical structure of DNA?and showed that the secret of life was a large molecule?he held court over the new field of research that this discovery unleashed. Exuding an Edwardian elegance of logic as well as dress, he instantly brought to mind the good-natured arrogance of Henry Higgins in George Bernard Shaw...
...package of military-and-economic aid Washington has promised cash-strapped Manila this year, and U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell said that the two countries "remain friends." But how the pullout "might affect our policies in the future remains to be seen," he added. Asiri Abubakar, a political scientist at the University of the Philippines, called Arroyo's decision a big gamble: "The administration may be celebrating now, but maybe not in the long run." Arroyo may have traded foreign support for cheers at home...
...obstacles, many refugees recognize that their new life offers far more opportunity than the existence they left behind. "They have to be willing to work as street vendors if that's what it takes to learn the market economy," says Lee Min Bok, a former North Korean agricultural scientist who now heads a Christian refugee association. And some are doing just fine. Ju Sun Young, an actress in North Korean propaganda films?she played Kim Jong Il's mother?opened a restaurant last August, just eight months after arriving in South Korea. This year she opened a second outlet that...
...other surprising discovery was also an oddly Catholic book. John Bagnall's "Don't Tread On My Rosaries," published by Kingly Books of Glasgow, Scotland, collects a group of short stories, the best of which, "The Chemist and the Capuchin," tells the slightly nutty but heartfelt story of a scientist who suffers a chronic injury and rediscovers his lost faith. Another tale imagines David Bowie's diary from his Berlin days. Created with no apparent pretense, Bagnall's work has a warm and funny eccentricity...
...that Muslim anger against the West "is no less than a clash of civilizations - the perhaps irrational but surely historic reaction of an ancient rival against our Judeo-Christian heritage, our secular present, and the worldwide expansion of both." The phrase "clash of civilizations," later popularized by Harvard political scientist Samuel Huntington, is now regularly invoked by political analysts to explain images of angry demonstrators in an Arab country chanting anti-American slogans. Though the concept is subtle and complex in the hands of these two leading academics, the media tend to boil it down to this: the cultures...