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Elizabeth was European Bureau Chief of Life Magazine in the late 80's and early 90's. During that time, she arranged photo stories and interviewed Nelson Mandela, Margaret Thatcher, the Dalai Lama, and dozens of other leaders, movie and pop stars, politicians, and royalty, as well as torture victims, political prisoners and criminals. She oversaw Life photographers in the field during the first Gulf War.

In 1990, she managed to initiate and co-ordinate the acquisition of Mandela's autobiography for Little Brown, while Mr. Mandela was still in prison. She spent the first three weeks of Mandela's release in his back garden.

Prior to her appointment at Life, she was a reporter at the London bureau of Time Magazine for two years.

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The Difficult Question of Epigenetics

A couple years ago, The New Yorker published a long piece by Siddhartha Mukherjee, who famously wrote The Emperor of All Maladies, about The Gene, his new book, which I have ordered.  Mukherjee is a meticulous writer, so there will be a substantial amount of plowing through the history of the genome, twin studies and various and many other digressions before he gets to the eternal point, which is Read more of this blog post »
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