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...DIED. HORST BUCHHOLZ, 69, who acted in the classic western The Magnificent Seven and recent Oscar winner Life is Beautiful; in Berlin. After a stint in Berlin theater, Buchholz had a successful movie career in the 1950s mostly playing rebellious teenagers, which gave him a reputation as Germany's James Dean. He was the first German actor to receive international acceptance after World...
...succeeds Zhu?who championed his promotion to Premier and to the nine-member politburo Standing Committee?carrying a reputation as a buttoned-down technocrat who lacks not only his mentor's fiery bravado but also his business savvy. Even during his four-year stint as Vice Premier, Wen was rarely called upon to deal with foreigners or promote market economics. Some question whether he has the clear vision and political will to run China's contentious Cabinet while managing a trillion-dollar economy, overseeing the layoffs of millions of angry workers in state companies and forcing another round of market...
Brown, now a Grammy award-winning artist and CEO of her own label, took a roundabout path to banjo stardom. After pre-med flirtation at Harvard, there was an MBA and a stint as an investment banker at Smith Barney. Ultimately, she traded in stocks and bonds for three-finger picking and shows at the Grand Ole Opry...
...other. Chemically, it would work. The bases were different enough in size and shape, though, that this scheme led to either a gap between bases or misshapen backbones. Worse yet, when Watson happened to show his idea to Jerry Donohue, an American crystallographer doing a stint at the Cavendish, Donohue informed him that the bases came in more than one chemical form. Watson was using the form prescribed in standard textbooks. But the textbooks, Donohue insisted, were wrong...
Ironically, Franklin thought of her stint at King's as the low point of her career. By the time the news about DNA broke, she had moved on to a lab at the University of London, where she studied the structure of viruses. There she finally met the Crick to her Watson, the crystallographer Aaron Klug, with whom she did the best work of her career. In 1955 Don Caspar, a young researcher from the California Institute of Technology, visited the lab, and they became close. At 35, Franklin had still never had a fulfilling romantic relationship with...