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Could Hiroshima happen again? For 60 years the sense of power that goes with having a nuclear capability has been tempered by another emotion: naked fear of the horror that nuclear weapons can cause. From John Hersey's heartbreaking journalism for the New Yorker in 1946, through films, books and documentaries, the hell that was Hiroshima has helped persuade us to stay our hand...
...President sits in the Oval Office, that egg of light, as Author John Hersey once described it. He is all wired up to microphones that will transmit his words to the typists. A clutch of aides hover at the fringe, but otherwise Ronald Reagan and his guest are alone, as they have been a dozen times in the past 4½ years...
...School professor has started the “Journal of Negative Results in Biomedicine†(JNRBM) which is dedicated to publishing the results that could save scientists from doing years of work just to get the same negative result that others have already found. In an introductory editorial, Hersey Professor of Cell Biology Bjorn R. Olsen, who edits the journal, and Visiting Research Fellow in Pediatrics Christian Pfeffer wrote that “it is useful and important to publish well documented failures, such as with drugs that show no benefit for which the shortcomings have not been publicized...
...Hersey, 9-10, 11-1, 2.30-5, 21 Warren House...
...ignition of trench-coat wanderlust, their minds flickering in black and white for a moment, a few frames of '30s movies. Daniel Pearl, I gather, had the gleam. A sheer avidity to know things is the most endearing trait of any journalist. Long ago, the novelist and journalist John Hersey wrote in a sketch of Henry Luce, "He was amazed and delighted to learn whatever he had not known before." Curiosity is the noblest form of intellectual energy; in any case, your mind goes nowhere without it--except maybe to fanaticism...