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...Behr's partner, deputy managing editor Gerald Boyd, explained to me last week, the Times set out to examine the uneasy relationships between minorities (mostly blacks) and whites who relate to each other as equals, a goal it accomplished brilliantly. But that approach by definition excludes an examination of how powerful white institutions, such as banks and insurance companies, influence the way race is lived by redlining ghettos and charging blacks more for their burial policies. It also precludes looking at how race is lived by those who seldom come into contact with peers of a different group, like affluent...
...book makes me think offhandedly about the bright, mysterious word "fun." Fitzgerald modeled Dick and Nicole Diver upon Gerald and Sarah Murphy, a wealthy and charming American couple who like the fictional Divers kept a villa on the Riviera in the 1920s and, in Fitzgerald's myth-making, had an exquisite genius...
...know it's a slow news day when former president Gerald Ford makes the front page of anything besides the Grand Rapids Golfer's Gazette. But the New York Daily News' "exclusive" bid Monday to transform the normally inconsequential chatter of a political nonentity into serious campaign fodder was questionable perhaps only in its placement...
...soon. The HGP is even further behind; unlike Celera, it hasn't put its strings of letters into proper order yet. This loose end should be cleared up in a year or two, but even then the so-called book of life will remain unreadable. That's because, explains Gerald Rubin, vice president for biomedical research at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, "it's written in a foreign language. It's a very complicated problem. It's going to be a long time coming...
...March, Venter eased the minds of other scientists by releasing the Drosophila data; moreover, he had done the research in collaboration with Gerald Rubin, now vice president for biomedical research at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and highly respected at DOE and NIH. "Rubin reassured us all that this was someone to trust," Patrinos said last week...