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They Must've Narrowly Beaten Out Bush and Cheney

Dec 11, 2007

US News & World Report has a special feature on 18 of America's top leaders, and GTO was pleased to see that a number of scientists made the list. These include Harold Varmus, now at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (the profile was written by Bernadine Healy), Shirley Tilghman at Princeton, and William Foege at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The profiles are in-depth pieces that offer a good portrait of the scientists.

 

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