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...would anyone not want to be counted? Illegal immigrants fear exposure, despite laws forbidding any court or agency from seeing the information; indiscreet Census workers can be fined up to $250,000. Minnesota Representative Michele Bachmann warned that during World War II, Census data was shared with the FBI "at the request of President Roosevelt, and that's how the Japanese were rounded up ... I'm not saying that that's what the Administration is planning to do," she said, but nonetheless she vowed that she'll state how many people are in her household and nothing more. Since participation...
...McEwan's new novel, Solar, would be about global warming, climate researchers might have hoped they'd found their champion. With his portrait of a relentlessly rational science writer in Enduring Love and his detailed descriptions of neurosurgery in Saturday, McEwan is the rare novelist who understands the scientific world - and the mind-set of the scientist. If anyone could make a best seller out of the sticky stuff of climate science and a hero out of one of its practitioners, it would be McEwan. (See the top 10 fiction books...
...keeping a family back in London. Even his clean-tech business plan is touched by corruption at its heart. The question in Solar is whether Beard's scientific brilliance will win out before his pathological self-destructiveness catches up. So it is with the species. (See pictures of the world's most polluted places...
...that already a third of a million people are dying from climate change. Even as we speak, Bangladesh is going down because the oceans are warming and expanding and rising." In other words, says a jovial Beard, "it's a catastrophe. Relax!" It may be the end of the world - but at least the scientists will be right...
Saturday Neurosurgeon Henry Perowne sees the world through the cool eyes of a scientist - even when his family is threatened. McEwan shadowed a real doctor as part of his research