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Arthur D. Riggs, 82, Died; The Leading Team to Invent Artificial Insulin

“City of Hope convinced me that if my donations were made public I could encourage others to do the same,” he told the Los Angeles Business Journal. Dr. Riggs then developed the basics of monoclonal antibodies using recombinant DNA technology to trick bacteria into producing proteins that mimic human antibodies. This development has led to …

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Marc Brown on The End of ‘Arthur’ and His Favorite Fan Theories

From the moment Marc Brown meets you, he measures you. Just maybe not as usual. “People remind me of animals,” said Brown, 75, creator of the illustrated character Arthur Read, the 8-year-old bespectacled boar who has been helping children since the 1976 book “Arthur’s Nose.” travel the world around them. “When the kid I’m talking …

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Conviction of Carlos Arthur Nuzman for Bringing the Olympics to Brazil

The man who brought the Olympics to South America for the first time has been jailed for more than 30 years after a judge in Brazil ruled that Rio de Janeiro’s success in securing the 2016 Summer Games was based on a bribery scheme. The verdict against Carlos Arthur Nuzman, a longtime former chairman of …

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Review: A Rare King Arthur Opera, Bard Says ‘Welcome Back’

ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, NY – Just two words from the loudspeakers to loud applause for the audience at the Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College on Sunday evening: “Welcome back.” welcome back, really Ernest Chausson’s rarely heard opera “Le Roi Arthus” Presented as part of the Bard’s SummerScape festival. And welcome back to the …

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A King Arthur Rarity Is A Convenient Way To Return To Opera

In the third act of Ernest Chausson’s opera “Le Roi Arthus” (“King Arthur”), Guinevere asks Lancelot, “Unified in love, united in sin, shall we unite in death?” he asks. The tangled Arthurian love triangle is familiar from the works of “The King Once and Future”, “Camelot” and Sir Thomas Malory. But here, the question that …

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