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...What's startling is the sheer variety of workmanship, from the spiral stone carvings of the chambered mounds of County Meath in Ireland, to the huge mortice - and - tenoned pedestals of the island of Menorca. The Scandinavians stood their stones in boat formation; the Portuguese shaped them like eggs. What they had in common is that tribal leaders put them there to prove they'd picked the right spot, says Cope. "They mythologized it for being flood - free, fertile and safe. That's a universal response." Archaeologists might well pick holes in his arguments; they lent an indulgent...
...London. With his colleague (and frequent adversary) Rosalind Franklin at King's College in London, he came up with a clear X-ray image of DNA. Within weeks of receiving the photograph, James Watson and Francis Crick built a model of the giant molecule's double-spiral structure. Watson, Crick and Wilkins later shared the Nobel Prize for Medicine...
...respectively, skated to Nat King Cole’s hit “When I Fall in Love.” The pair won gold medals at the 1964 and 1968 Olympic games and is famous for inventing pairs figure skating moves such as the death spiral, in which the woman glides on one foot almost horizontal to the ice as the man spins...
...economic future, Greenspan sometimes acts to head off scenarios that are exceedingly remote but, in the worst case, could do extreme damage. Concerned last year that growth was not taking hold despite large tax cuts and worried over the slim possibility that the economy could slip into a deflationary spiral, he opted to cut short-term interest rates to 1%, their lowest level since 1958. "His policy was to move aggressively to pre-empt the chance that this small-probability event would ever take place," says Roger Ferguson, the Fed's vice chairman. "The reward was to avoid any likelihood...
...turned his attention from physics to biology. With his colleague Rosalind Franklin at King's College in London, he came up with a clear X-ray image of DNA. Within weeks of receiving the photograph, James Watson and Francis Crick built a model of the giant molecule's double spiral structure. Wilkins shared the Nobel Prize for Medicine with Watson and Crick in 1962. DIED. YANG HUANYI, late 90s, believed to be the last writer and speaker of a rare language used exclusively by women; in Jiangyong, China. Nushu, Mandarin for "women's script," was used to share emotions, particularly...