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When Kirichok undertook the challenge in early 2004, “sperm cells had a very bad reputation among physiologists,” he wrote in an email...
...RIVER OF DOUBT CANDICE MILLARD When he felt a little down, nothing picked Theodore Roosevelt up like a near suicidal adventure. In 1914, smarting from having lost the presidency to Woodrow Wilson, he undertook the descent of the scarily named Rio da Dvida, the River of Doubt, an unmapped tributary of the Amazon. Millard charts the trip Roosevelt called his "last chance to be a boy," which was a calamity. The travelers were beset by piranhas; starvation; rapids; malaria; mutiny; Indians with poison-tipped arrows; and tiny Amazonian fish that attack the, um, loins. In the dark of the jungle...
Abramoff's politics were also conservative. As a student at Brandeis University in Massachusetts, he and Grover Norquist, a Harvard Business School student who later became one of the most powerful G.O.P. antitax activists of the Bush era, undertook the challenge of trying to mobilize the state's famously liberal college students behind Reagan in 1980. Norquist recalls they scored a big political coup in winning over the Bostoner Rebbe, one of the nation's most influential Hasidic leaders, whose endorsement they figured was good for about 3,000 votes. That was just about the size of Reagan's upset...
...make the ground fertile for South Carolina's businesses to grow and prosper. He cut the marginal income-tax rate for the first time in South Carolina's history, which will return more than $130 million to our state's small businesses over the next four years. Sanford undertook our state's first comprehensive legal reform and retooled the commerce department. Although he inherited a government $750 million in the hole, that debt is now nearly extinguished. Those kinds of actions are the building blocks of a better economy and actions that, as a taxpayer, I love. MICHAEL FIELDS, FORMER...
...Eric says, his voice saturated with sarcasm. “I had to get that job, so in a stroke of creativity I went to the local Home Depot and signed up for the lowest-rung position they had.” The work Eric undertook was anything but glamorous. “When the toilet overflowed in the bathroom, they’d send me to mop up the shit...