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A history of mad-cow disease by veteran science writer Richard Rhodes ( The Making of the Atomic Bomb ). Critics praise Rhodes' lucid explication of complex virology as well as his range--the book includes digressions on political and literary themes and a section on the scandal surrounding a Nobel Prize-winning expert on the disease who recently pleaded guilty to molesting a little boy.
Randolph B. Cohen, an assistant professor at Harvard Business School (who is not to be confused with Slate 's "News Quiz" writer Randy Cohen), raises an interesting question about movie-ticket prices (see " In Praise of Movie Ticket Prices").
High praise for Ali, too: "[H]is charisma makes the film" (Richard Corliss, Time ). The film's highlights: on-screen commentary from ringside spectators Norman Mailer and George Plimpton, music by James Brown and B.B.
Some critics praise it as having "the moody, disquieting undertow of a true moral thriller" (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ), while others call it "too implausible for anyone to rescue" (Kenneth Turan, the Los Angeles Times ). Slate 's David Edelstein is basically pro: "The upshot might be melodrama, but it's melodrama with heart, bones, sinews, and tear ducts."
I liked Peanuts . (It is difficult to be funny in praise of anything, so if you want your little laughs, leave off here and go peruse those newly released medical records with their vivid--a little too vivid--description of the polyps Al Gore doesn't have in his colon.