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...France wanted to even the score; the U.S. wanted French money, supplies and military help. Together they beat Britain (there were more French soldiers than Americans at the battle of Yorktown). Their hardheaded transactions were sweetened by personal alliances. America's most important diplomat in Paris was the scientist and wit Benjamin Franklin, who became such a celebrity in France that his image graced snuffboxes and inkwells. The hero the French sent in return was the Marquis de Lafayette, an ardent young nobleman who passionately embraced the cause of liberty and was regarded by George Washington as a surrogate...
Nora Volkow Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse and pioneer in the science of addiction I'd select the Duke University scientist whose pioneering work in epigenetics and genomic imprinting has uncovered a vast territory in which a gene represents less of an inexorable sentence and more of an access point for the environment to modify the genome. The trailblazing discoveries of Dr. Randy Jirtle have produced a far more complete and useful understanding of human development and diseases...
...avoid muddying his boots at the annual pig farmers' convention in Schleswig-Holstein. But Sauer clearly has a soft spot for some events on his wife's schedule - in particular, those that involve rubbing shoulders with the Bushes, according to Merkel biographer Gerd Langguth. His natural reserve notwithstanding, the scientist has made a point of greeting the U.S. First Couple during their earlier visits to Europe. And his views of the U.S. are said to have influenced his wife's as well...
...espionage games, may have taken inspiration from legendary, real-life Soviet master-spy Alexander Feklisov, the cold-war operative who ran some of the KGB's deadliest spies in the West. Feklisov's recruits included Julius Rosenberg, widely believed to have provided information on the Manhattan Project, and German scientist Klaus Fuchs, who had worked at the Los Alamos lab. Feklisov was pivotal in his country's acquisition of the nuclear bomb, first exploded in 1949, some five years before U.S. agents expected...
CLARIFICATION: The Oct. 26, 2007 news article "Profs Protest Tenure Interference" did not fully explain the circumstances surrounding Law professor Alan M. Dershowitz's letter criticizing political scientist Norman G. Finkelstein's academic work. Dershowitz's criticisms of Finkelstein were sent to professors at DePaul University in response to a request from a department at the university; the letter was not unsolicited...