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Some professors say they won’t let student contact be the factor in the equation that is diminished to make room for time for being a public intellectual. MIT neuroscientist Steven Pinker, whom FM tracked down on the West Coast in the midst of a six-week tour to promote his new book, The Blank Slate, says he makes a point of answering students’ e-mails on the same day that he receives them. But still, as Pinker admits, in order to be an effective public intellectual, “something?...
...courtroom full of tabloid reporters taking shorthand was doubly so, but also powerfully reminiscent of her life, both tawdry and irresistible: little bits of the goddess preserved in plastic bags, relics of a media saint. Prosecutor William Boyce said Diana's mother and sister will testify during the six-week trial that Burrell, 44, had no right to these things. But he did have access: he lived in Kensington Palace for 10 months after her death and helped compile an inventory for her estate. A palace policeman once saw Burrell pull up his station wagon...
DIED. DR. MARNIE ROSE, 28, of brain cancer. Her battle against the tumor was followed by millions on the six-week ABC reality series Houston Medical...
HOLD THE HERBS New studies raise fresh questions about the safety and efficacy of two dietary supplements. A six-week trial of ginkgo, touted to enhance memory, found no improvement in memory, learning or concentration among healthy people with no neurological symptoms, compared with a similar group taking placebo capsules. A separate study of colon-cancer patients revealed that St. John's wort, used to fight depression, interferes with the potentially beneficial effects of irinotecan, a widely prescribed chemotherapy drug...
...unlikely populist crusader. Having finished dead last in the Democratic primary in the previous election, Spitzer made it to the finish line on his second try in 1998 by spending a sizable chunk of his father's real estate fortune--and only then after a six-week, Florida-style recount in which the incumbent cried voter fraud. His political views were several shades to the right of most New York Democrats. And the crony-ridden office he inherited was so inept--its top lawyer had flunked the bar exam seven times--that exasperated judges regularly reprimanded...