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That America's greatest hero was for a time a man in a white lab coat might have delighted Salk's peers in medical research. Instead many of them resented him as a man who reaped the glory for work that had been pioneered by less celebrated scientists all around the world. By 1962 Dr. Albert Sabin's oral vaccine, derived from live viruses, had become the preferred method of inoculation in the U.S., and Sabin was bitter about Salk's earlier triumph. Just a few years before his own death in 1993 Sabin claimed that "Salk didn't discover...
...bring extensive rain gear. Umbrella, rain coat, duck boots--the whole works. It rains here . A lot. Sometimes an umbrella alone does very little to protect you from Boston's torrential downpours, which are usually accompanied by gusty winds. And the old brick sidewalks of Cambridge have a way of collecting rainwater and ruining shoes. If you don't like getting wet, consider transferring...
Forty years ago, male students were required to wear a coat and tie to meals...
When many members of the class of 1945 moved into their houses, the house master wore a uniform, and not the normal professional coat...
...awaiting trial, Najarian has retreated into his private practice. At the University of Minnesota Hospital, where he still performs two or three transplants a week, the embattled physician can often be seen striding down corridors in his white coat and surgical greens or sitting behind his desk in his out-of-the-way office, musing quietly amid pictures of his adult sons. On the advice of his lawyers, Najarian is saying little about the charges he faces, but he makes no secret of his anger and sense of betrayal. "The university," he says, "turned on me because they were afraid...