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It's all very entertaining, and the educational stuff goes down with only the faintest academic aftertaste. (David Levithan, executive editorial director at Scholastic and a young-adult author himself, calls The 39 Clues "subversively educational," by which he presumably means that kids won't notice they're learning, not...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The 39 Clues: The Next Harry Potter? | 9/9/2008 | See Source »

In 2004, Weller published his autobiography, "Growing Pathogens in Tissue Cultures: Fifty Years in Academic Tropical Medicine, Pediatrics, and Virology."

Author: By June Q. Wu and Esther I. Yi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Weller, Nobel-Prize Winning Public Health Researcher, Dead at 93 | 9/5/2008 | See Source »

? An investigative journalist who invoked the ire of the Nixon Administration for his reporting on Watergate in the 1970s, Edwin Guthman was never afraid to pursue a story. In the era of McCarthyism, he made his mark while working for the Seattle Times, where he uncovered evidence that a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 9/4/2008 | See Source »

It's what happens next that is different. SU2C will not distribute funds to research institutions. Instead, it will assemble dream teams of scientists across disciplines and institutions, and they will work collaboratively on projects designed to deliver a product of sorts--as opposed to an academic paper--within a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: He Won His Battle With Cancer | 9/4/2008 | See Source »

According to the Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance, U.S. textbook prices rose 186% between 1986 and 2004, or twice the rate of inflation. College students now spend roughly $900 on textbooks every academic year, books they are required by their professors to purchase. This disconnect between the buyer and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Outsourcing the Textbook | 9/4/2008 | See Source »

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