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Mon Sep 24 2001 at 2:52:04 Isaac Stern is possibly the most well-known violinist of the 20th century. In over sixty years as a professional musician, Stern has worked with many great composers, and acted as a mentor for many younger musicians including Itzhak Perlman, Pinchas Zukerman and Yo-Yo Ma. With more than one hundred classical recordings, Isaac Stern is the most recorded musical artist of our time. Stern was born on July 21, 1920 in Kremnets, Russia (now Ukraine). When Isaac was ten months old, his parents moved to San Francisco to flee from the Russian Revolution. Isaac was first tr...

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Some of the most fascinating topics covered this week are: Investing (Mastery through deliberate practice), Technology (Why your bank's systems keep failing), Business (Secrets of successful listening), and Obituary (Katharine Whitehorn and Mahinder Watsa - Counsels of imperfection)

Robert Pollack, 94, scientist, professor and Navy veteran Dr. Robert Pollack (Courtesy of Janine Shahinian) Advertisement (Jewish Exponent via JTA) —Robert Pollack was a scientist, author, Navy veteran and former chair of the department of biochemistry at Temple University’s School of Dentistry (now Kornberg School of Dentistry) who grew up speaking Yiddish at home with his immigrant Jewish parents in West Philadelphia. Pollack graduated from West Philadelphia High School and was drafted into the Navy Hospital Corps during World War II. After the war, he earned three degrees in c...

Barbara Leedom: Viruses' Borrowed Life Wicked Local A friend asked me to write simply about the bad names I’ve been calling COVID-19 for the past nine months. He asked me to be gentle. I asked what he meant by being gentle. “Calling things awful names does not give us any information about viruses.” I hadn’t thought gentle when I’d called the pandemic virus a malevolent microbe and a vicious, vehement virus and other wordy epithets. So I said I’d do research and beware of junk theories. I would also pass my writing by two doctor friends.