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...Love struck quickly, says Redburn's wife Elina, who had an engineering degree in Russia and now works for her husband. Same for Adams' wife Tanya, who has a business degree. The women miss aspects of home but say good riddance to Russian men. Besides, it may take some improvising and networking, Tanya says, but it is possible to make good borscht in Phoenix...
...testimony has been turned into a play, The Trials of Monica Lewinsky, most recently performed at the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival. Texas composer Stephen Hilton's Under Oath: A Political Cantata took its libretto from the same source, and is available on CD. And you can still catch Starr Struck, at left, a musical in L.A. Susan McDougal has seen it twice...
...century's foremost woman anthropologist, Margaret Mead was an American icon. On dozens of field trips to study the ways of primitive societies, she found evidence to support her strong belief that cultural conditioning, not genetics, molded human behavior. That theme was struck most forcefully in Mead's 1928 classic, Coming of Age in Samoa. It described an idyllic pre-industrial society, free of sexual restraint and devoid of violence, guilt and anger. Her portrait of free-loving primitives shocked contemporaries and inspired generations of college students--especially during the 1960s sexual revolution. But it may have been too good...
Then, unexpectedly, he struck out when he proposed an implausible, three-chain helix for DNA. Several months later, in Cambridge, England, Francis Crick and I, apprehensive that Linus might bat again, found the double helix. Why Linus failed to hit this home run will never be known. His wife Ava Helen is said to have told Linus that he should have worked harder. I believe the decade following World War II may have had too many agonizing moments for the Pauling family...
...footsteps since he developed the cluster of theories he would give the name of psychoanalysis. His fundamental idea--that all humans are endowed with an unconscious in which potent sexual and aggressive drives, and defenses against them, struggle for supremacy, as it were, behind a person's back--has struck many as a romantic, scientifically unprovable notion. His contention that the catalog of neurotic ailments to which humans are susceptible is nearly always the work of sexual maladjustments, and that erotic desire starts not in puberty but in infancy, seemed to the respectable nothing less than obscene. His dramatic evocation...