Hilts, Philip J

Discusses Robert Wilson, the particle physicist who built the Fermilab Accelerator; Mark Ptashne, who made a lifetime study of the lambda virus; and John McCarthy, who is a major contributor in the field of artificial intelligence.

Expos?e of the tobacco industry, documenting how companies have misled the American public about the dangers of smoking, including details of marketing programs that target children, the work of the Food and Drug Administration to regulate cigarettes, and discussion of how modern cigarettes are made.