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...scientifically inclined son of middle-class parents from Britain's Midlands--his father was a shoe manufacturer--Crick started out studying physics and during World War II worked on radar and magnetic mines. But like Watson, he switched fields after reading Erwin Schrodinger's What Is Life? After their triumph in 1953, Crick went on to study the larger issue of how the millions of base pairs along DNA's twisted strands convey the message of the genes...
...What finally bothers their detractors is, perhaps, not that these people are humiliated but that they are not. Embarrassment, these shows demonstrate, is survivable, even ignorable, and ignoring embarrassment is a skill we all could use. It is what you risk--like injury in a sport--in order to triumph. "What people are really responding to on these shows is people pursuing their dreams," says American Candidate producer R.J. Cutler. A reality show with all humiliation and no triumph would be boring...
...refuses to conform to your needs--the narrative needs that you feel are essential to give rough shape to your time on this earth." Mountstuart struggles heroically to give his life this rough shape. He never quite does so. That's his failure as a person--but Boyd's triumph as an artist. --By Lev Grossman
...line extends out the Cardio Room door. Those at the front of the line fashion a look of utter triumph. Three minutes later, most of the machines are booked until at least 8:00 a.m. The treadmills and elliptical machines are all reserved until...
...Eagles have never won the Beanpot title. Two of Harvard’s last four Beanpot championship victories came against BC—a 9-0 win in 1999 and a 7-2 triumph last year...