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...lost his car and condominium, and ended up staying at a Jamaica Plain homeless shelter for over six years...
What followed was a sustained scientific Donnybrook. Roses, whose penchant for plain speaking had long irritated his peers, was attacked--viciously, he says--and he proceeded to fight back in kind. He dubbed his opposition the Amyloid People and mercilessly taunted them. The plaques, he argued--and still argues--were just tombstones, markers of places where brain cells had died, not the cause of death. On one occasion, Roses sent Selkoe, who had co-founded a company to work on Alzheimer's therapeutics, a photograph inscribed with the message "Dennis, you're wrong--but you're going to be rich...
...true that what the Serengeti Plain is to lions, the poshest private grade schools in Manhattan are to head lice. In recent years the head-lice problem at private schools has increased at almost the same rate as tuition, leading to the theory, not yet proved, that some of these places must be charging...
...museum honoring such hometown heroes as Charley Patton, Son House, Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters and John Lee Hooker. The history of the music is the story of the people who invented it and the suffering that created it. Without black work gangs to clear the thickly wooded Delta plain and sharecroppers to pick the cotton, there would have been no plantation economy; without African Americans to sing the work songs and field chants and slide their knife blades and bottlenecks across the strings of diddley bows and mail-order guitars, there would be no Delta blues. And without the blues...
Priceline, the company most renowned for reintroducing William Shatner to prime time, has come to represent both what is transformative and what is just plain annoying about the Web. Think of any overhyped Web term or concept: disintermediation. The auction economy. Virtual communities. Stupid TV spots. Priceline, based in Norwalk, Conn., is a poster child for these and other new- economy cliches, especially the one about how it doesn't need to make money today because it will make tons of it someday. Next year. Maybe...