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...stings when you stick your hand in a nest of fire ants. This nugget of wisdom—and other lessons for aspiring naturalists—were on display at last night’s showing of a documentary about two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning Harvard professor Edward O. Wilson. Wilson, who has been at Harvard for 56 years, is most famous for his work as an entomologist and his advocacy for the environment. The film featured reenactments of Wilson’s boyhood, including the incident with a pinfish that left him permanently blind in one eye. The accident...
...team scoring, it was more individual. We had a lot of people who had outstanding performances.” Other top individual performers of the day were Drayton, who finished third in the 200-meter dash, Ng who ran third in the 800 meters, and junior Dara Wilson, who took bronze in the 60-meter hurdles. “I think our performances yesterday give us a positive outlook for the rest of the season,” Smith said. “For the women’s team, I would definitely say that we would be more competitive...
What is truly mind-boggling about Wilson's extraordinary saga is that not one word of it leaked to the press. He credits this to the bipartisan spirit in Congress at the time. "It never leaked because nobody wanted it to," he says. "Everybody was pulling for [the mujahedin]. It was amazing and will never, never, ever happen again...
...that his secret life has become more public than ever, Wilson is just focused on making it to the premiere of Charlie Wilson's War in Los Angeles. Both Barbara and his cardiologist will be at his side for his moment of glory. "Look," he says, "making that movie was the most fun I ever had in my whole entire life. And believe me, that covers a lot of ground...
Washington journalist McElwaine first profiled Wilson...