September / October 2004 Since Last Time Reading List Draft Picks In the News In Boston That Night A long-ago debate and the young musician who entertained the crowd. Orphans No More Robert Rosen ’65: Diagnosed with a rare blood disease, a businessman makes an eye-opening discovery. Watch Your Language Kathleen Mellor ’89: The country’s best teacher divulges the secrets of her success. Love, Sweet Love Warren Brown ’93: What the world needs now is more bakers and fewer lawyers. The Team That Thinks It Can For the past two seasons the football team has been plagued by slow starts. What about this year? For the Love of Joe A team of soccer alumni gets back on the field in memory of legendary trainer Joe Castro. Found in Translation An anthropologist, a writer, and their two children move to India and discover a culture of beauty and contradiction. What surprises them, though, is what India has to teach them about the culture they left behind. A Modest Proposal Where are the scholars willing to embrace such old-fashioned ideas as community, commitment, and service? A graduate student asks whether she and her peers have lost their ability to address the problems of the wider world. Mail Room What They Did Up and Running We’re living longer, but our numbers and weight may undo those gains. What We Will Do for Luck Which is more dangerous, the fourth floor or the thirteenth? Roach Out After fourteen years as athletic director, Dave Roach is taking over the athletic department at Colgate. Anything Was Possible Frank Newman ’47 Obituaries Data Points Labor Days What did students do this summer? Here’s what they told the BAM Orienting Orientation Marketing TWTP to all freshmen yields a single white applicant Just Thinking The White House recognizes two young researchers as among the best Viral Lode Are prisons providing a breeding ground for hepatitis B? Closing Shop Two longtime Thayer Street merchants call it quits What’s That on the Carpet? A new study is trying to find out whether pollutants inside your house may be a factor in breast cancer Moneyball on Steroids Jerry Daniels is taking the hunches out of America’s favorite pastime No Deal Now that federal regulators have ruled against a Brown graduate-student union, teaching assistants ponder their next move Fresh Ink Joint Work Getting the lowdown on knee and hip pain, and the doctors who treat them. Is There a Doctor on the Set? Beautifying the world one bottom at a time. Music Lessons Want to get kids off the streets? Get them into a string quartet The Brainy Bunch A documentary looks behind the scenes at tournament Scrabble. Darth Venter’s Challenge Egos vs. science in the war to map the human genome. He’s a Guy with a Match Director Chris Smith ’85 is bringing new sparks to San Francisco’s fabled Magic Theatre. Artist of the Heart Medical School professor Richard Hopkins is a Zen master of surgery. He performs 175 heart operations a year, a third of them on children, and designs heart valves made of human tissue. His goal: a longer and better life for all.
