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GISELLE is one of those ballets imbued with the power to melt audiences. Mikhail Baryshnikov has been known to do the same. One would think that a cinematic synthesis of the two could offer an hour and a half of entertainment.
Dancers--said synthesis--has even been directed by Herbert Ross, whose 1977 The Turning Point accrued 11 Academy Award nominations. But in this endeavor, something seems drastically awry as Ross tries to translate the classical plot of Giselle into a modern-day romance between Baryshnikov and a 17-year-old...
American scientists Donald J. Cram and Charles Pedersen, and French researcher Jean-Marie Lehn, received the prize in Chemistry for their work in molecular synthesis.
The Nobel Prizes for Chemistry and Physics were awarded yesterday to scientists and researchers working in molecular synthesis and superconductivity.
The search for a new anticholesterol drug began in Japan. Akiro Endo, a scientist with the pharmaceutical firm Sankyo, wondered whether soil molds that kill cholesterol-containing bacteria might have evolved the ability to block cholesterol synthesis. In 1976, after testing 10,000 compounds, Endo found one that inhibited a...