As part of his doctoral research, Albert Schatz, a twenty-three-year-old graduate student at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, diligently worked alone in a basement laboratory to find an antibiotic to treat tuberculosis. In October of 1943, Schatz discovered streptomycin. But his professor, Selman Waksman, took the credit, relegating Schatz to the footnotes of history.
Over fifty years later, German-born Inge Auerbacher read an article that named Schatz as co-discoverer of the drug. As a young Jewish girl during World War II, Auerbacher was a prisoner at Terezin...
As part of his doctoral research, Albert Schatz, a twenty-three-year-old graduate student at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, diligent...
They call Lisa Stack the Asphalt Angel and more often The Bitch On Wheels. But deep down, she s soft as mush. She drives on the sometimes lonely and dangerous highways across America in her Freightliner, making the asphalt cry out beneath her. Lisa s heart-pounding lady trucker adventures begin when she is the subject of a brutal mugging. She gets caught in the web of the notorious N.Y.G. (New York Gang), whose slogan is: Comply or you die She witnesses the explosion of a gas tanker and the murder of its driver by ski-mask wearing hoodlums. Lisa gets a tour of New York City with a gun to her...
They call Lisa Stack the Asphalt Angel and more often The Bitch On Wheels. But deep down, she s soft as mush. She drives on the sometimes lonely and d...
