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...debut THX 1138 and Alan Rudolph's 1977 drama Welcome to L.A. Before moving into the rock 'n' roll genre, the New York native was a leader of the 1960s cinema-verit? movement, and traversed the globe for United Nations and National Geographic documentaries. DIED. FRED WHIPPLE, 97, rocket scientist whose "dirty snowball" theory made it easier to track comets; in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Before Whipple explained the phenomenon in 1950, astronomers thought comets were loose collections of dust and vapor held together by gravity. Whipple argued that the core of a comet consists of ice, ammonia, methane and carbon dioxide...
...plates--each coated with silicon, gold, sapphire or diamond--and then stowing them back inside the body of the spacecraft. What's there could be a cosmic treasure: "A billion billion molecules for us to study," says Don Burnett, a geophysicist at the California Institute of Technology and project scientist for the Genesis mission. But first the $260 million ship must make it home in one piece...
...guaranteed success. In the first episode the still none-too-bright Joey moves to Los Angeles to pursue his acting career. He moves in with his sister (Drea de Matteo, late of The Sopranos) and her extremely bright and nerdy 20year-old son, who is, yes, a rocket scientist. And, oops, there's a cute girl next door. So far, nothing can be accused of breaking the form. But Friends was an O.K. idea that thrived on good writing, actorly charm and a low-key start. Let's hope Joey has two out of three. --By Belinda Luscombe...
...tool that revolutionized medical care; in London. In the 1960s he built the computerized axial tomography scanner, which uses X rays to give doctors a three-dimensional, cross-sectional view of the body's interior. The innovation brought him the 1979 Nobel Prize, which he shared with South African scientist Allan Cormack, who had worked independently on the idea...
...Netflix, like many other great eureka moments in business, came from a mundane experience. It was 1997, and Reed Hastings was six weeks late in returning a copy of Apollo 13 to his local Blockbuster in San Jose, Calif. The late fee was $40, and the former computer scientist thought to himself, 'Never again.' He came up with a simple solution--so simple that Silicon Valley entrepreneurs are still kicking themselves for not having thought of it first. Netflix customers keep a wish list of DVDs they want to see, in order of preference, on www.netflix.com Netflix then mails...