Taking up the challenge, Alex Ross provides a micro-biography of
completeness one would expect to be published about someone unknown -
written by way of (re)evaluating the 10 gigabyte Philips edition:
http://www.newyorker.com/critics/atlarge/articles/060724crat_atlarge
[Another article in the July 24 New Yorker - not available on-line -
is an example of lucid writing about science, Alec Wilkinson about the
search for yet-unknown neighbors in the solar system: "The Tenth Planet."]
Janos Gereben/SF
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