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Someone did try to kill Christine Smith in August 1998. She remembers a man about 50, 5 ft. 10 in. tall, blue-eyed, picking her up on East Sprague at about 1 a.m. "You're not the psycho killer, are you?" she asked as she climbed in. As they drove to a secluded spot, he told her he was a helicopter pilot for the National Guard. He was not a murderer, he told her, because he had five kids and "wouldn't do that." He was calm and--unlike many of her customers--sober. He paid Smith $40 for oral...
LONDON--Buried in a sleepy corner of the Harvard campus, somewhere in the nation's largest collection of psychological data, lies a slim folder whose sealed contents might help explain what drove the Unabomber to kill...
...roiling early days of the dotcom economy, this logic made perfect sense to investors, who drove Priceline's stock to $119 a share. Profits were years away, but that was something that worried your old uncle in the boring old economy. Now, of course, the hottest concept sweeping the Web--with the NASDAQ off 26% and e-tailers disappearing faster than Energy Department hard drives--is actually making a buck...
...desire to help speed up human genetics that drove me in 1986 to become an early partisan of the Human Genome Project, whose ultimate objective was to sequence the roughly 3 billion DNA letters that comprise our genetic code. Though many young hot-shots argued that the time for the project had not yet arrived, those of us a generation older were seeing at too close hand our parents and spouses falling victim to diseases of genetic predisposition. And virtually all of us knew couples rearing children whose future was clouded by a bad throw of the genetic dice...
Things that made my father happy: Perry Mason; any Broadway musical starring Gwen Verdon; fishing for blues with doctor cronies off Montauk, on New York's Long Island; Corona Corona cigars; a straw skimmer hat; Herman Wouk. Things that drove him up the wall: misinformation about medicine in movies or on TV; strangers calling him by his first name; my frequent playing of Screamin' Jay Hawkins' I Put a Spell on You; and me, at least before I achieved...