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Pranks and Pumps
For Chris Miller, finding channels – or pumps, as it sometimes turns out – is more fun than winning a Nobel Prize
Email: Karen Hopkin - khopkin@the-scientist.com The Scientist 2005, 19(5):51
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"We have your dog," read the cut-and-paste ransom note taped to Chris Miller's office door one day in the late 1990s. A biophysicist and Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass., Miller regularly brought his West Highland terrier, Charlie, to the lab. "They even left a picture of the dog holding that day's newspaper," he laughs. Charlie was eventually returned, but only after Miller paid up, producing a stack of fill-in-the-blank, signed recommendation letters: "____ is the best person I've ever had in my lab. ..."
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