Writer

Michael Stein

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Harvard Med as Verdun

E VERBODY'S got an inside story... Rita Jenrette revealed the lewdnes of the Congressional social scene, Woodward and Armstrong blitzed


What's Wrong With Health Care?

Arnold-Relman is the man who decides what will appear in the New England Journal of Medicine. The man who writes


The Ongoing Evolutionary Synthesis

Although Charles Darwin and Gregor Mendel were contemporaries, they never met. By the 1860s. Darwin had already published The Origin


Saints and Sinners

M ARY GORDON'S SECOND NOVEL, The Company of Women reads like a prayer. As in her first book. Final Payments,


Capitalists Dream of Genes

After the initial burst of public fascination that accompanies most new ventures into high technology, the recombinant DNA industry has


Advise and Dissent

The great majority of us are required to live a life of constant, systematic duplicity. Your health is bound to


Hydroponics for Pot

High technology doesn't play favorities. It helps the NASA engineer, the modern architect, the computer programmer and now marijuana dealers.


A Jeremiad for the Novel

I N EACH academic domain, there are trendsetters. With the ability to capture the thoughts of a group of intellectuals


The Natural vs. the Natural

P ASSED THROUGH an ideological sieve, scientific theories and research often become strained and shredded, exiting in pieces that no