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...DIDN?T START THE FIRE: On May 29, Hyperion will publish "Firehouse" by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author David Halberstam. The book will be a portrait of Engine 40 Ladder 35 on W. 66th Street, which lost 12 men in the WTC attack. According to the publisher, "In the tradition of John Hersey?s ?Hiroshima,? Halberstam tells the story of the community within this firehouse, before, during and after the cataclysmic events of September 11th." The book grew out of an article commissioned by Vanity Fair, where Halberstam is a contributing editor...
...CAMELOT CORNER: Caroline Kennedy, editor of the best-selling "The Best-Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis," is at it again. "Profiles in Courage For Our Time," edited by Caroline Kennedy, will be published by Hyperion on May 1. Kirkus approves. "Character sketches of 14 men and women who have won the Profiles in Courage Award, which recognizes elected officials who ?stood fast for the ideals of America...By and large, a refreshing sampling of political legacies cleaving to the notion of equality and justice on behalf of the weak and exploited." In October, Hyperion will publish "Patriotic Poems," Kennedy...
Last September, Walter Professor of Cell Biology Marc W. Kirschner, Professor Joseph B. Martin, dean of the Faculty of Medicine at Harvard Medical School (HMS) and Provost Stephen E. Hyman helped circulate a mass petition signed by 15,000 scientists who agreed to publish their work only in journals that would grant free online access to their archives after a six-month embargo...
...despite the efforts of these top scientists through BioMed Central to create an online journal system to aid free communication, the prestige associated with publishing in one of the premiere scientific journals prevents even the founders of BioMed Central from expecting their students to publish on the site...
Kirschner said he was not actively encouraging his own doctoral students to publish through BioMed Central...