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...Fuad al-Afghani, a souvenir seller in Amman, made a fortune on Saddam's popularity. He reckons he sold 50,000 items, such as Saddam wristwatches and Scud lapel pins. Last week, as he stood in a shop brimming with copper trays and Bedouin rugs, al-Afghani said he would not be touting Saddam trinkets this time around, not with Jordan's government frowning on the Iraqi President. Al-Afghani still admires the man, but he figures, "Why give myself a headache?" It's the kind of sentiment that signals a romance is breaking up. --With reporting by Amany Radwan/Cairo...
...solved the most basic mystery of molecular biology is a reminder that brilliant minds and top-notch training aren't necessarily enough to penetrate the secrets of nature. You also need resilience, dogged persistence, plus a fair amount of luck--and as Watson inadvertently proved with the 1968 best seller The Double Helix, his controversial inside account of the discovery, a bit of arrogance doesn't hurt...
...days, Quinn titles don’t need help from alphabetization to fly off the shelves. Romancing Mr. Bridgerton, her June 2002 release, was named one of the top ten Favorite Books of the year in an annual poll by Romance Writers of America. Her New York Times best-seller The Further Observations of Lady Whistledown is shelved at the Coop right in the main literature section...
...Yale could wait. And wait it did, for two years while Pottinger worked on additional novels she contracted for. It was not a smooth, British-accented sail straight to the best-seller list, however...
DIED. HUGH TREVOR-ROPER, 89, brilliant, cranky British historian; of cancer; in Oxford, England. The Last Days of Hitler, his 1947 best seller, which described a confused, deluded hitler, was based on Trevor-Roper's investigation as a wartime member of the BRITISH Secret Intelligence Service. In 1983 his reputation was tarnished after he authenticated 60 volumes of what turned out to be forged Hitler "diaries...