SOMETHING “BIGGER” THAN THE BETHLEHEM BACH FESTIVALS

How to Eat Something Bigger than Your Head

Macrophage phagocytosis, the engulfment of large particles, is important for host defense against infection and for the removal of dead cells. These phagocytes can internalize particles larger than themselves, obtaining membrane from internal pools including recycling endosomes. Desjardins and coworkers report in this issue of Cell that the endoplasmic reticulum is a major reservoir of membrane...

Baywatch: Bigger than Aid?

As electricity networks expand, television is second only to lighting in terms of priority uses. A recent survey of households in a rural area of Indonesia showed how rapidly the technology spread. Within two years of electrification, television ownership was 30 percent. Within seven years of electrification, household ownership rates reached 60 percent –this in an area where average incomes we...

Bigger than a Ballot Box

Is something better than nothing?

In July 2000 I spent 3 weeks in Haiti on a medical student elective. Eager to work in a new country and experience a new culture, I’d read about Haitian culture and history. This was my first exposure to medicine outside of North America. People warned me: “Haiti? Be careful! You can’t trust anyone there! They’re so poor, they’ll take anything they can get their hands on!” I was confident commo...

Something is better than nothing.

b a c [ T w m v f s i m i y t c t Lesson 1. Doing something is better than doing nothing. “You should go to the studio everyday,” a University of ichigan art professor named Richard Sears told his stuents. “There’s no guarantee that you’ll make something ood—but if you don’t go, you’re guaranteed to make othing.” The same is true of science. Every research plan as flaws, often big obvious ones—...