Johns Hopkins Magazine - June 1996 Issue
Johns Hopkins Magazine
Electronic Edition -- June 1996
Science & Technology
- Dinosaurs of the East
Coast
Adapted from the book by David B. Weishampel and Luther
Young
From abundant footprints and fragmentary bones and teeth,
paleontolgists have pieced together a picture of the prehistoric
creatures that roamed the East Coast.
- Findings &
News
Humble charcoal that holds high-tech promise... how infants use
nouns... "mush columns" of magma... holding stars together with
dark matter
Public Policy and International Affairs
- Reconcilable
Difference
By Dale Keiger
After 10 years and Tiananmen Square, the only collaborative
center in China, the Hopkins-Nanjing Center, is still in business
-- and its library is still uncensored.
- Findings &
News
The middle-class origins of today's drug scourge... conservative
ammunition for debate... a not-so-bright future for Haiti
Health & Medicine
- Stalking the Stem
Cell
By Elise Hancock
By isolating the cells that give rise to the entire blood and
immune system, Curt Civin has made possible new ways to treat
(and cure) cancer, blood disorders, and genetic diseases.
- Findings &
News
A protein that shows suprising promise... how fingerprints can
prevent unnecessary surgery... why marriage can be risky in
Thailand
On Campuses
- Their Day in
Court
By Melissa Hendricks
In the academic world, the goal is truth in all its messy
complexity. Not so in court. Hopkins scholars say that testifying
as an expert witness can be a chilly baptism.
- Campus News
University names a new president... Hopkins left reeling after
student murder... new digs for Nursing... men's fencing squad
goes undefeated
Humanities & The Arts
- Historic
Beginnings
By Morey Rothberg
Diary excerpts from the years John Franklin Jameson spent at
Hopkins show an uncertain young man who was relentlessly critical
of his colleagues -- and himself.
- Findings &
News
Literary games Boccaccio played... a first novel that landed far
from where it started... an Emmy for a promising young musician
Departments
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