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James Watson
Discoverer of the DNA Molecule
There was one person at Cal Tech who wrote a review which said my book should virtually be banned from children, because it will keep them from going into science. Maybe this person went into science for different reasons but, certainly, that hasn't been the effect. Most people who read the book say it was fun, and people say it inspired them to go into the field. So I don't think that touch of reality really -- but some people thought "this is evil," and I didn't.
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Andrew Weil
Integrative Medicine
There was no legal mechanism for getting marijuana for research. There were many different federal and state agencies that were involved. A lawyer who was very interested in marijuana legal issues bet me that I would never be able to obtain permission to get marijuana to do human research. The attitude of the school was, they were very upset, the Human Subjects Committee. Because one of our experimental designs was that we wanted to give marijuana to people who never had it before, because we felt that expectation played an enormous role in determining the effects of marijuana. And people who had previously used it had expectations of what it would do. The Human Subjects Committee of the school took the position it would be unethical to expose people to marijuana who had never been exposed to it. We ended up doing the research at Boston University School of Medicine, because Harvard wouldn't let it be done on their premises. And there was a lot of contention here, I mean, there were a lot of negotiations with many agencies and bureaucracies.
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Andrew Weil
Integrative Medicine
I have a very strong sense of my own -- of what's right -- and I'm able to operate fairly independent of all that kind of storm that goes on. And maybe I would relate that to my upbringing, and as I said, being an only child and having learned to be independent, and think for myself, and operate on my own. I would say, more than difficult, it was lonely for a long time. Because there were not other doctors out there who were advocating the kinds of things that I was doing. And I was often attacked from both sides. From the alternative side for being too mainstream, and from the mainstream side for being too alternative.
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Sanford Weill
Financier and Philanthropist
I got into this business sort of as a fluke. My wife and I were getting married as I graduated from Cornell. And I was in the Air Force ROTC, and I was going to be a pilot, and report down to Lackland Air Force Base in January of 1956 and make $6,000 a year. That was how we were going to start out in life. Then Eisenhower was cutting back on military expenditures, and I was looking for something to do, from June through that January. And in walking around New York and looking for ideas, one day I happened to walk into a brokerage office and it seemed exciting. I had tried to get jobs in that industry when I was at Cornell. And at that point in time, the volume in the New York Stock Exchange was only maybe a million and a half shares a day. Unless you came from a wealthy family, and had good connections, you couldn't get in the business. So I got a job at Bear Stearns and Company, first as a runner, and then worked in the back office. And that's sort of how it all started.
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