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Crewdson, bogged down in the details only a microbiologist would care to understand, loses his reader amid a sea of technicalities and descriptions of virus strains until the drama of 1985. At this point, Gallo claimed to have discovered the virus that causes AIDS, dubbed HLTV-3B. With this virus, Gallo created the first blood antibody test and garnered all the accolades minus the Nobel Prize, including a nomination to the National Academy of Science...
Among the competitors for such ads are a handful of magazines aiming generally at anyone over 50. Greg Daugherty, 48, the editor in chief of New Choices, published by Reader's Digest, doesn't see a significant division between baby boomers and the rest of the magazine's 610,000 subscribers; all of them want advice on health, travel and money...
...Garden may not be a page-turner, but Bock's prose lures the reader along through smooth, sculpted sentences full of rich detail and subtle meditation. With patient intensity he weaves characters that are particularly relevant now, revealing how victor and vanquished, both burned by the shock waves of horrific events, must both become survivors...
...suggesting that Cornel West is saying things that should get him fired from Harvard, or anything like that. All we are saying is that Cornel West has become in the past five or 10 years a polemicist. I mean, if you open up the Cornel West Reader or Race Matters or read any of his op-eds, he’s saying things that—while they aren’t utterly loony—they are of a certain extremely left wing stripe that is—I mean it’s a polemic. I like polemics...
...back cover plea to find “female readers” begins on the defensive, replying to an invisible critic that “this book is in fact more than The Unofficial Guide without the restaurant listings.” With such unprovoked hostility, the female reader is left to wonder if the authors are really so certain of the book’s validity after...