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...soldier-scientist (and former TIME cover boy), seeking a cure for the virus in the basement of the lavish Washington Square townhouse he has turned into a fortress (and where, don't ask me why, he sleeps in the bathtub, with his dog). So now he's Jonas Salk, and Jesus too, ready to give his life so that others may live again. It's in the last half-hour that I Am Legend imports new elements that both propel the story to its explosive climax and just aren't as compelling as the day-in-the-life story that...
...portraits of a positively paternal A. Lawrence Lowell, Former Unviersity President, and all manner of similarly rich Harvard bric-a-brac will adorn the walls of the space under Memorial Hall, in the shadow of the stifling modernity of the Science Center. Who’s laughing now, Jonas Salk...
...Poliomyelitis, a contagious viral disease that once crippled and killed thousands of children annually, has been eliminated in most of the Western world thanks to a vaccine invented by Jonas Salk in the 1950s, but it still survives in some of the world's poorest countries. India seemed to be on the verge of eliminating polio last year, when it reported just 66 cases of the disease, down from 1600 in 2002. This year, however, things have gone horribly wrong with India's polio elimination campaign; 325 cases have been reported already, and at least 23 of them have been...
...napping the new coffee break? Sleep experts say that day is getting closer for farsighted businesses. "I'm seeing a surge in bosses' saying, 'I want to bring this into my business,'" says Sara Mednick, a sleep researcher at the Salk Institute. "Usually the boss is a napper...
...that seemed to target children, especially American children. It put its victims in iron lungs and paralyzed a President. This Pulitzer prizewinning history goes behind the scenes of the scientific street fight that raged as rival laboratories raced to create a safe, effective polio vaccine. Victory went to Jonas Salk, a brilliant, flawed man but one who had an uncommon ability to empathize with the suffering of others--as a colleague put it, to "see beyond the microscope...