Photo: Srikanth Reddy

Found poetry

For Srikanth Reddy, writing a poem is as much an act of excavation as creation.

Not long after his first book of poems came out in 2004 and a bad case of writer’s block came on, Srikanth Reddy picked up the political memoirs of Kurt Waldheim—international statesman and possible accomplice to Nazi war crimes—and started crossing out words.

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Founding genes

Nearly every winter, Chicago geneticist Carole Ober heads to South Dakota to meet with a group of agreeable farmers.

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Test of violence

"Urban-problems guy" Jens Ludwig uses clinical trial rigor to identify anticrime programs with the most promise.

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