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OF NOTE [290 KB]
George W. at Pitt.
Hench and McEllroy winners saluted.
A requiem for what ails ya - life in the Mendelssohn Choir.

INVESTIGATIONS [226 KB]
Finally, a cure for diabetes, but ...
Insulin release captured on video.
Crohn's researchers wrote the book on how to nail down complex - trait disease genes.

MATCH LIST [42.1KB]
Where the Class of '02 is spending its days and nights for the foreseeable future.

ATTENDING [136 KB]
Getting the inside scoop on Jonas Salk's story.

ALUMNI NEWS [183 KB]
Catching up with the Class of '62.
Zane Gates once thought you had to have magical powers to be a doctor.

LAST CALL [158 KB]
Featuring Led Zeppelin and Edith Piaf.

COVER STORY

Knock-out science: Peter Strick and friends' movement studies deliver decisive blows to convertional brain theory (Photo: 1981. Sugar Ray Leonard defeats Tommy Hearns for the welterweight title. © Bettman/CORBIS

The Sweet Science of Movement [220 KB]
Peter Strick's work has knocked neuroscience off its feet. For one, the cerebellum is not outside the higher-order thinking-feeling loop, as was once believed.
COVER STORY BY EDWIN KIESTER JR.

FEATURES

Bernard Fisher In Conversation [117 KB]
At first, he had no interest in doing cancer research; Bernard Fisher was talked into it. Lucky for us.
INTERVIEW BY LEAH KAUFFMAN

Mt. Olympus Goes Techie [448 KB]
The emerging OR is a technophile's dream come true.
PHOTO - ESSAY BY TOM ALTANY AND DAVID R. ELTZ

The Virus Keeps Hiding [240 KB]
Twenty years ago Charles Rinaldo started collecting semen samples to understand a mysterious new disease. Despite advances since, AIDS is definitely not under control. Multidrug resistant HIV has scientists scared.
BY DOTTIE HORN