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Paging Dr. Harold Varmus: Negative Results on Build Plan

A year and a half ago, Dr. Harold Varmus went to Memorial Sloan-Kettering Hospital with impeccable credentials-former director of the National Institutes of Health, a 1989 Nobel Prize-and a mandate to rev up research at the East Side institution.

Dr. Varmus, Sloan-Kettering’s new president, Read More

La Lunchonette: Friendly, But No Counter Service

When Paul Bocuse visited New York several years ago, he went to breakfast at Bigelow Pharmacy in the Village. The kid who manned the store’s luncheonette slid a mug of coffee across the counter and asked Mr. Bocuse how he wanted his eggs.

“As the chef desires,” replied Mr. Bocuse.

Mr. Bocuse would perhaps Read More