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Talk about multitasking. Joshua Spanogle, 35, is going to Stanford Medical School and writing thrillers at the same time. His gripping debut novel, Isolation Ward (Delacorte), features Dr. Nathaniel McCormick, a young investigator from the Centers for Disease Control, who is desperate to stop a frightening new epidemic in Baltimore before it spreads. Is it terrorism? Is it treachery? Galley Girl caught Spanogle, not surprisingly, in the Stanford library...
...Stanford, most of the students graduate in five years. Most students take a year to do some research, either clinical research or basic science research. So I took a year to do some basic science research and orthopedic surgery. The second year, the reason I'm graduating in six instead of five with most of my classmates, is that I'm writing a second novel. The first one was really kind of crammed in around the corners of my studies and then my lab work. The second one I needed to take this chunk of time to work...
...rough draft I did in the summer after my first year. I actually received a grant from Stanford to work on the book. I worked on that rough draft after that first summer, and then over classes or between classes, on weekends. I was able to do some writing while I was in the lab, while waiting for experiments and things like that...
...points, the public seems to have reached its own. For years, popular skepticism about climatological science stood in the way of addressing the problem, but the naysayers--many of whom were on the payroll of energy companies--have become an increasingly marginalized breed. In a new TIME/ ABC News/ Stanford University poll, 85% of respondents agree that global warming probably is happening. Moreover, most respondents say they want some action taken. Of those polled, 87% believe the government should either encourage or require lowering of power-plant emissions, and 85% think something should be done to get cars...
...Harvard still has not announced a divestiture from the Russian oil firm Tatneft, despite the fact that other schools—including Amherst, Stanford, and the University of California—have cut ties to Tatneft to protest the company’s links to the Khartoum regime...