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...Morningside Avenue in Harlem. The dominant figure of my youth was a small man, 5 ft. 2 in. tall. In my mind's eye, I am leaning out the window of our apartment, and I spot him coming down the street from the subway station. He wears a coat and tie, and a small fedora is perched on his head. He has a newspaper tucked under his arm. His overcoat is unbuttoned, and it flaps at his sides as he approaches with a brisk, toes-out stride. He is whistling and stops to greet the druggist, the baker, our building...
...Whitacre made a fateful decision. "I did not feel comfortable lying to the FBI," Whitacre said. Instead, he blurted the truth to special agent Brian Shepard, "a very trustworthy guy" who ran the Decatur office. Whitacre soon agreed to carry a recorder hooked to his inside coat pocket while working in the office and to tote a briefcase rigged with a taping device to sessions between ADM representatives and those of other companies. He also tipped the FBI to meetings where prices might be discussed with representatives of other companies so the agents could videotape the proceedings. "It's amazing...
...that. Yet sometimes he approached them, as in his finest portrait, his 1872-73 study of the Victorian sage Thomas Carlyle. When he sat for Whistler, Carlyle was 78 and heavy with fame, depression and guilt. All this is conveyed in the disturbed but massive black profile of the coat and in the tenderness of Whistler's treatment of the face...
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...