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...hard not to notice 1 million migrating animals. But until Mike Fay and Paul Elkan, scientists with the Wildlife Conservation Society, began conducting aerial surveys of southern Sudan in January, the world had little idea the savannahs were covered with 1.2 million white-eared kob, tiang antelope (shown in photo) and Mongalla gazelles parading in processions up to 50 miles long. "I've covered the entire continent looking for this, and there is no place like it, even in the Serengeti," says Fay, referring to the Serengeti wildebeest herds, considered the world's largest mammal migration. Because of a decades...
Isaacs' personal life has been a piece of cake compared with her protagonist's. In addition to being a novelist, she has worked as a political speechwriter and a screenwriter. Isaacs has been happily married to white-collar-criminal defense attorney Elkan Abramowitz for 36 years. He was a hit with her family from day one, says the author. "They adored my husband. My maternal grandmother said, 'You've got someone from the Ivory League!'" --By Andrea Sachs
Other members of his committee include M. JudahFolkman, Andrus professor of pediatric surgery;Elkan R. Blout, Harkness professor of biologicalchemistry and molecular pharmacology; MichaelRosenblatt, lecturer on medicine; Christopher T.Walsh, president of the Dana-Farber Institute; andJoyce Britain of the Office of TechnologyLicensing and Industry...
...Haber, Elkan R. Blout Professor of Health Sciences and former President of the Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceutical Research Institute, has also taught at the Medical School...
Harvard's 1990 winners include Baruj Benacerraf, chair of the Department of Pathology at Harvard Medical School; Elkan R. Blout, director of the Division of Biological Sciences at the Harvard School of Public Health; George F. Carrier, professor of applied mathematics emeritus; David G. Nathan, professor of pediatrics; and Robert V. Pound, professor of physics emeritus...