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Weller received the 1954 Nobel Prize for Medicine with two of his Harvard colleagues—John P. Enders, Weller’s former professor at the Medical School, and Frederick C. Robbins—for their research on polio. The researchers reported successfully cultivating poliomyelitis viruses in a test tube for the first time in 1949, using tissue taken from a monkey. (Enders died in 1985, Robbins...
...seeing John McCain without snark. I suspect his honorable, at times moving, and in some ways remarkable acceptance speech will be judged favorably by the public. It was a reminder of what he had once been as a politician ... and yet it did feel flat after the full-throttle bilge and vitriol of Sarah Palin and Rudy Giuliani the night before. It also seemed more a valedictory than an acceptance speech - more the end of a career than the beginning of a presidency...
...remarkable? Because John McCain is. "They broke me," he said flatly, of the torture he endured in the Hanoi Hilton. It wasn't the first time he'd said that - indeed, he has been more specific: he has admitted attempting suicide after the North Vietnamese twisted and yanked the war-crimes confession out of him - but it is bracing, all the same, to hear a politician admit weakness. Indeed, this was the first time I'd ever heard a presidential candidate admit his party's failure as comprehensively as McCain did tonight: "Instead of changing Washington, Washington changed...
...strongest aspect of the speech may have been the awkwardness of the delivery. What we saw tonight was the real John McCain. But his offering was thin for a country in a heap of trouble. Given the admitted failure of his party, he didn't present anything more than his own integrity as an action plan. And given the anger and vitriol of his campaign - given the scurrilous, sarcastic speeches he allowed to be delivered on Wednesday night; given the embarrassing antics and media conspiracies spouted by his staff - McCain's reputation for integrity has been badly damaged...
...presidential acceptance. He is the standard bearer of a failed ideology - ironically, a belief in "me first" before country - and tonight the leap between what McCain really cares about, and what his party really believes, proved too great a chasm for an old warrior to bridge. (See photos of John McCain's Tumultuous Week here...