Showing posts with label science. Show all posts
Showing posts with label science. Show all posts

Friday, October 30, 2009

Highlights from this Sunday's Times (10/25/09)


Dr. Martin Raber, who lives with cancer. (Scott Dalton for The New York Times)

- Gina Kolata on the world of the M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Texas
- Judy Tong and Nate Schweber on how a New Jersey church janitor killed a priest
- Lynn Hirschberg on the story behind the movie "Precious"

Sunday, September 20, 2009

Highlights from this Sunday's Times (9/20/09)


Carl Jung. (Henri Cartier-Bresson)

- Sara Corbett on the drama surrounding a wild book Carl Jung wrote a century ago but will only be published this year
- Lizette Alvarez on the fate of an envelope an American soldier found tucked in the shirt of a dead Japanese soldier on Iwo Jima
- Henry Alford on people obsessed with Wagner's "Ring" opera cycle

Monday, August 10, 2009

Highlights from this Sunday's Times (8/9/09)


Adam Lepak. (Jon Reis for The New York Times)

- Benedict Carey on how Adam Lepak is growing out of a brain injury
- Anne Barnard on the tough but contributive members of New York S.U.V. clubs
- Katie Zezima on the struggles Boston bicyclists face

Sunday, July 12, 2009

Highlights from this Sunday's Times (7/12/09)

Lloyd Gaines. (Associated Press)

- David Stout on Lloyd Gaines' contribution to the civil rights movement — opening the way for blacks to be admitted to the University of Missouri School of Law
- Andrea Elliott, winner of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing, on some Somali-Americans who have been lured to participate in jihad
- Charles Siebert on human-whale interaction

Sunday, May 17, 2009

Highlights from this Sunday's Times (5/17/09)

- Amy Harmon, winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting, on a family struggling to help their 34-year-old son, Joshua Thompson, avoid death by A.L.S. with an experimental medicine
- Bruce Weber's obituary of Sid Laverents, a peculiar homemade film auteur
- David Segal's profile of Daniel Boulud and his new New York restaurant