Sunday, January 15, 2006

Questions for Allegra Goodman -- nytimes.com [clip]

Appears that this is famous (!) college classmate of mine from college who's writing about scientists.
I think she's married to another classmate, David Karger.

http://classes.harvard.edu/college/1989/cn9507.html
http://theory.csail.mit.edu/~karger/
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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/15/magazine/15wwlnq4.html
Questions for Allegra Goodman
Interview by DEBORAH SOLOMON
Your new novel "Intuition" revolves around a scandal in which a research biologist in Cambridge, Mass., deliberately falsifies his data in order to get credit for a cancer breakthrough. Is it based on a true story?...
No. I had the idea of writing about a couple. One of them suspects the other one is cheating. But not cheating in the usual way. I've always found tales of adultery rather dull...

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