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...Lasker Award is awarded to clinical scientists annually and is considered “a precursor to receiving the Nobel Prize,” said Philippa Marrack, a professor of immunology at the National Jewish Medical Center and an investigator with Wiley for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute...
...today the definitive work in its field. And yet he could not shake his disdain for an institution that despite its resources had produced only one of the three men most prominent in American colonialism—Secretary of War (later State) Elihu Root, Philippines Governor (later President) William Howard Taft and Governor of Cuba Gen. Leonard Wood...
...portrait of a man of few obvious personal faults, and his political ones often seem irrelevant. Morris’ biography might have pointed out more prominently the ambiguous legacy of Roosevelt’s colonialism, or that it was not Roosevelt but his obesely benign successor William Howard Taft who had the most success busting trusts and regulating the robber barons. And he offers less psychologizing in this volume than in his account of Roosevelt’s early years; there is little talk, for instance, of Roosevelt’s father, whom he adored and feared to an uncommon...
...also described his initial work with NAACP lawyers in 1960, when he was only two months out of Howard University Law School. He said he was touched by the gratitude of black families in Georgia, where he had worked on this first case...
...what's really going on under DON IMUS' cowboy hat when he's glowering off into the distance? Last week smart money would say it had something to do with HOWARD STERN. The longer-haired of the two radio shock jocks took aim at Imus' charity ranch in New Mexico, where the famously cantankerous broadcaster puts up kids with cancer and gives them chores (example: gardening) intended to heighten appreciation for old-fashioned, outdoorsy values. On his show, Stern termed the ranch a "scam." "These cancer kids show up, and Imus just lets them work on the ranch for free...