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...first, I didn’t plan on spending my summer with flies, or in any laboratory for that matter. When I was younger, I used to dream of being a research scientist. But several years ago, I spent a summer working in a lab where I spent the whole day crushing mouse food and then running mice in mazes before they were killed for further study. Besides building nice forearms from my constant grinding with mortar and pestle, the summer taught me a lot: mice do not make wonderful conversationalists, and whatever else you do as a scientist...
...long string of internship experiences, my fears proved unwarranted. Within the first few days, my boss had me performing experiments for my own small project. I became engrossed in learning as much as possible about the molecular biology techniques used in the lab. For all purposes, I became a scientist. My 40-hour week quickly expanded to 60 hours, and I did not even notice the difference. Now, I even go in on Sunday afternoons to prepare experiments for the week...
...Steve Ansolabehere, a political scientist at MIT and co-director of the Voting Technology Project, spoke with TIME.com Tuesday...
...pages of documents that had not been handed over to lawyers for Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh. Just last week former FBI agent Robert Hanssen pleaded guilty to having worked as a spy for Moscow--for more than two decades. Then there was the botched investigation of Los Alamos scientist Wen Ho Leel. Mueller, who is all but certain to be confirmed by Congress, could have the second toughest job in Washington as he attempts to restore the FBI's reputation...
...very distinguished scholar in a field that is distinctly different from my own,” said Tilghman, who is, by profession, a molecular biologist. “She is a political philosopher and therefore brings knowledge of a part of the university with which a scientist like myself would not be familiar...