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Instead, the impact of this brilliant scientist’s pursuit of glory at all costs is hidden in a litany dinner meetings. And the difficulties of searching for clues to HIV and the efforts of other well-intentioned scientists are entirely forgotten. In trying to portray the futility of egoism in science, Crewdson commits the ultimate irony: Gallo emerges as the only memorable, potentially household name in the story...
...Gamow, which picks up where The Double Helix, his first memoir, left off. Although the title suggests a tripartite focus, the “girls” portion certainly dominates the book and much of the reader’s attention is focused on Watson’s pursuit of a wife from...
...less vulnerable in Lebanon than it may soon be in the West Bank and Gaza, where its forces are dispersed to defend some 145 settlements and to encircle scores of Palestinian population centers. Such vulnerability only increases when the IDF is sent inside those population centers in pursuit of Palestinian suspects...
...Daniel Pearl's case, that assumption proved tragically incorrect. Thursday the Wall Street Journal confirmed that Pearl had indeed been killed by his captors. All journalists will mourn him as a courageous colleague whose story has reminded us that the pursuit of truth is sometimes no protection in a dangerous world...
Everyone has artistic obsessions. For most college kids in the age of the Internet, the endless search for the perfect live bootleg of a favorite song offers welcome procrastination from life’s responsibilities. Why one becomes so obsessed with certain artists and devotes hours to the pursuit of their music is a complicated affair to dissect. But Mendy, one of the characters in Terrence McNally’s The Lisbon Traviata, offers some insight when he explains his obsession with Maria Callas: “Opera doesn’t reject me, the real world does...