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...annual barbecue for his lab group at his beach house on Cape Cod, is something of an amateur magician. Folkman, Langer's original mentor, remains one of his biggest fans. "He's a true genius," says Folkman. "He sees answers to problems in such unique ways you can't trace the steps he took." In other words, he's very good at pulling rabbits out of hats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Biomedical Engineering: Drug Deliveryman | 8/20/2001 | See Source »

Buddha may still be weeping for this troubled land: certainly foreigners don't stay long in Galle anymore. The colonial mansions, the storehouses, the fort walls that jut south into the Indian Ocean echo more with the ghosts of visitors past. And like Zheng He, all trace of them, and of the hopes and ambitions they brought with them, is growing faint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Testament to an Odyssey, A Monument to a Failure | 8/20/2001 | See Source »

...whole cube." After two years of painstaking research and experimentation, Hajek identified a metallic compound - he won't say what it is - that functions like the drop of water on the ice cube. Hajek's compound kick-starts the melting process and can then be removed without a trace. "You need to know something about microwaves, something about glass and combine the two," Hajek says. "The solution was so simple that it made me wonder why no one had come up with it before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Artisans | 8/20/2001 | See Source »

...myth machine and bring you the real story.' But the closer you get to it, the more you realize it just doesn't exist." But even Leamer acknowledges that it once did. If you want to know why the Kennedys occupy large stretches of American culture, you have to trace the workings of the machine. They lead back to the patriarch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Myth Machine | 8/13/2001 | See Source »

...inappropriate discussion that could derail the conference's objectives. Of course, that doesn't get Israel off the hook on the issue of racism. (Speaking personally, I can understand the impulse to question a principle that allows me, as a South African-born Jew who can trace his origins back into mediaeval Europe, the right of "return," but denies the same to a Palestinian colleague born there but forced to leave in 1948 - on the grounds that his return would ultimately endanger the Jewish character of the state. I know the answers to this question in the realm of realpolitik...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who's a Racist? Can a UN Conference Decide? | 8/1/2001 | See Source »

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