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Science Nobelists The Nobel Committee favored gene research this year, awarding the prize in Medicine to Briton Richard Roberts, 50, and M.I.T.'s Phillip Sharp, 49, whose studies of the structure of genes led to new theories about how creatures evolve and why genes go awry. Half the Chemistry award was won by Kary B. Mullis, 48, who created the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) as a means of copying fragments of DNA. The other half went to Michael Smith for related discoveries...
...himself and going on to give one of the most thrilling live performances in the history of recorded sound. Another impressive recital is the 1968 television concert, which features Horowitz's best, most graceful reading of Schumann's gentle Arabeske as well as a thundering Scriabin Etude in D-sharp Minor. Horowitz continued to play for 16 years after he left Columbia, but his horizons never again expanded, while his coy mannerisms became more pronounced. By the time of his 1986 return to Russia, he had become a musical dwarf star, with an imploding repertory and an arch delivery that...
...been painted from nature.'' His work was to have an immense influence on abstract painting -- What would American artists in the '40s, from Arshile Gorky onward, have done without him? -- and yet it never lost its sense of wonder at the world or ceased to anchor itself in sharp little signs and pictographs denoting the specific. Its utter conviction is furthered by Miro's resort to painstaking, almost old-masterly construction and technical effects: in the mid-'30s he produced a series of tiny oils on copper, such as Man and Woman in Front of a Pile of Excrement...
...northern Polish towns I've visited—Maków Mazowiecki, Ostroleka, and Rózan—have pizza parlors, ice cream stores, and coffee shops, and most of the teenagers I've talked to are quite similar to their American counterparts. However, some things provide sharp reminders that this is a foreign country. The food isn't terribly strange—kebabs, hamburgers, and open-faced, toasted subs called zapiekanki are popular—but Chinese food is generally regarded with suspicion and distaste, and Mexican food is unheard of. In the U.S., passing...
...When they reached the barn, O'Connor saw that Teddy's ankle was mangled. "Something sharp went through his ankle, Achilles tendon, and arteries," O'Connor says. She knew it was catastrophic - within 15 minutes four vets arrived on the scene, but the diagnosis was grim. "The decision to euthanize was ridiculously obvious," she says. The tears poured; Corcorcan left the barn. "Yeah, you say goodbye," O'Connor says. "I lost my best friend...