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...Northwest building will be located on Oxford Street and will contain research laboratories for an estimated 30 faculty members from various disciplines including biophysics, neuroscience, and bioengineering. The building will total 210,000 square feet above ground and another 260,000 square feet underground...
...Letters: My Father's Enchanted Period, the last book in Mehta's memoir cycle?collectively called Continents of Exile?concludes the most comprehensive autobiography of the past quarter-century. His topics range from going blind at the age of four to his childhood in Lahore, an education at Oxford, working for the New Yorker, love affairs in India and America, and the trials of house building in Maine. The unifying theme is loss, and the recovery, in unexpected places, of part of what has been lost. Going from his blindness, Mehta adds other privations, such as his bad luck with...
...traits that define him. As a journalist for the New Yorker, Mehta refused to be limited by his blindness; he traveled on assignments with guides who described how things and people looked, and he insisted on going everywhere and "seeing" everything. He wrote essays and books on Oxford philosophy, German theology, Gandhi's fight with his sexuality, the life of the writer R.K. Narayan, and Indira Gandhi's political fall and resurrection. His masterpiece is a long essay on Calcutta called "The City of Dreadful Night"?a jarring, clangorous, minor-key symphony, alive with the bustle and despair...
...trouble is, bird flu may not wait that long. The disease is already endemic in much of Asia, and a recent WHO report showed that the H5N1 virus has become progressively hardier and more lethal, with a human mortality rate of 75%. Dr. Jeremy Farrar, director of the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit at the Hospital for Tropical Diseases in Ho Chi Minh City, says he's shocked by the virulence of avian flu in the patients he has helped treat: "I've never experienced anything like it in terms of its destructive power. It is staggering in terms...
Tsunami is a Japanese word, of course, but it's been included in the Oxford English Dictionary since 1897. But since last month's tragedy, which left an estimated 160,000 dead, the term has taken on a whole new gravity?and manufacturers and advertisers have quickly adjusted. As Global Language Monitor's Paul Payack puts it, "The word tsunami will be the subject of considerable discretion before being used in anything other than a most serious manner." Here are some changes since the disaster...