For Whom the Nobel Tolls: An Evening Out with James Watson
Friday, November 19, 2010 - 18:00
in Astronomy & Space
NEW YORK--Never open a reporter's notebook inside The River Club. "People don't do work here. It's just not done," admonishes James Watson , the Nobel laureate, who is seated on a leather banquette overlooking Manhattan's East River. Our dinner companions grow jittery, an awkward silence falls, and finally the notebook gets tucked inside a purse. "These are just WASP conventions," adds Watson conspiratorially, and all is well again. [More]