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...While Berg and his colleagues were agonizing about the possible dangers posed by their experiments, two other scientists were planning an even more dramatic display of gene splicing. One of them was an intense biochemist named Stanley Cohen, 46, whose lab was only two floors below Berg's own quarters at the Stanford Medical Center research building. The other was Boyer, who worked just an hour's drive away at the University of California at San Francisco. Their partnership had emerged accidentally. In November 1972, after a long day of listening to scientific papers at a conference in Hawaii, they...
...world would be mirrored. There is everything in common between the relentless detail in which the boredom and pointlessness of Emma Bovary's life was built up, and the minutely articulated jumble of reflections behind the blank-faced nana in Manet's Bar at the Folies-Bergère, 1882. Both works, in a sense, point forward to the "objective," molecular constellations of dabbed light from which Seurat assembled his figures on the speckled lawn of the Grande Jatte. If the origins of one aspect of the avant-garde lie with Courbet, those of the other...
...Berg and Stravinsky: Violin Concertos (Deutsche Grammophon). Itzhak Perlman enhances two demanding works...
...face to face with Harvard undergraduates today who want to break the boycott, Berg says he would argue, "If you are a part of it, you are making the system work," no matter what intentions the students may have for reform...
...what student participation in a disciplinary body is supposed to accomplish, what end it serves," he adds. The CRR "began with the assumption that protest was wrong and people should be punished," and that, Berg concludes, is something no well-meaning student representative could eradicate...