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| | "Genes, Girls and Gamow" by James D. Watson Salon.com |
 | | James Watson's new book, "Genes, Girls and Gamow: After the Double Helix," is, as the title forebodes, about nothing much of anything. |
 | | Gamow, Watson tells us, was a big-time practical joker -- for instance, he once persuaded a handful of European physicists to write to the editor of Naturwissenshaften, a prestigious German scientific journal, to say that a paper they'd published had been a hoax. |
 | | Watson says in his preface that he's trying to capture the spirit of his youth and to avoid being reflective. |
| dir.salon.com /story/books/review/2002/03/12/watson/index.html (1170 words) |
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