Word: fellows
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...need that desire to create something," said fellow panelist Walter Gilbert, co-founder and former chief executive of Biogen Inc.; professor of molecular and Cellular Biology at Harvard, and a Nobel Prize winner. "It takes a lot of arrogance to create a company...
...Friday morning about 10 a.m. I found my office in a big mess," said Ian C. Dowker, a third-year graduate student who is a teaching fellow for Math 1b this semester...
Patterson's involvement in the Harvard community stretched back into the mid-'70s, when Patterson was a proctor at Matthews Hall and a Harvard teaching fellow...
...each man. It has exciting, boy's-life-perils footage of men risking their necks (and breaking a leg) for the suicidal glory of getting to the top of something they can only come down from--the high before the depression. It documents the stubborn spirit of a fellow contemptuous of compromise, almost of humanity, and his rebirth in a land where each desolation dissolves in beatific smiles. It is about a solitary star, trussed in celebrity, who learns how to be a team player. This motif, of fame as a badge and as a burden, struck a chord...
Greene, who describes himself as "stuck on snakes," believes they deserve a better rep. A collector since he was a seven-year-old in rural Texas, he sees them as far more interesting biologically and aesthetically than even fellow scientists once thought, and his research on snake behavior has helped show why. "Snakes are natural puzzles, suggestive of things that haunt and inspire us," he writes in his new book, Snakes: The Evolution of Mystery in Nature (University of California; $45). At once a paean to serpents and an encyclopedic review of what's known and not known about them...