At 16, after moving to the London Film Company, she began training to be an editor and went on to work on many of her husband's films, both as editor and script writer.

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Mr Nield, editor of the society's magazine, said Miller's work with fossils was internationally important.

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And those of us who were lucky enough to work there will remember those late nights, crowded in the editor's office, competing to see who could come up with the best cover line.

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"The work he's doing is monumental, " says Edward Kastenmeier, Strassler's editor at his current publisher, Pantheon.

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Such a mechanism is "a work of art for the wrist, " effuses Matthew Morse, U.S. editor of Revolution, a two-year-old glossy magazine for watch collectors.

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Speaking to the BBC's economics editor Stephanie Flanders at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Mr Stiglitz called for more work to boost the educational opportunities of the "bottom 50%" of Americans, higher minimum wages, and more collective bargaining in the workplace.

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