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Steve: How did you wind up writing this article? Zimmer: There was a paper that came out in Science earlier this year about some fish in the Hudson River along New York City that ha...

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Steve: But drug use did not go down. Zimring: Ah! That is exactly the point. Drug violence is down over the last 20 years by more than 90 percent. Drug use is quite steady, if you'r...

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Zimring: There were some important changes in police and policing and there were some population changes in only one borough, Manhattan— the number of African-Americans living in Manhattan wen...

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Steve: So, what does New York teach about urban crime and its control? Zimring: Well, in the first instance, what happens is that the reason New York is singled out is that it just ...

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Steve: Yesterday, when you were talking directly to the students, you talked about how research should be fun and exciting. Hershko: Yes, I believe in that. I think that discoveries...

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Steve: When you were doing your work for which you were awarded the Nobel Prize, everybody was looking at the synthesis of proteins, and you went with very few other people in a different dir...

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Steve: Secretary of Energy. Agre: That's right, Secretary of Energy, Nobel Laureate; John Holdren, presidential science advisor; Harold Varmus, Eric Lander of the President's Commit...

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Steve: You seriously considered a Senate run, a United States Senate run. Agre: Well, I was serious. I'm not sure everybody else was serious. This was the Minnesota Senate seat occu...