"The Dark World of Park Dietz" [Nov. 1994]
Serial killers, sexual sadists, celebrity stalkers, family annihilators--you name the perversion and forensic psychiatrist Park Dietz has probably explored it, asking questions and taking notes.

"A Doctor Who Makes Barn Calls" [Nov. 1994]
In the heart of Pennsylvania's farm country sits the Clinic for Special Children, where medical specialist Holmes Morton dedicates himself to diagnosing and treating inherited diseases among the Amish and Mennonites--illnesses that, until he came along, often led to brain damage and death.

"High Fat and Seizure Free" [April 1995]
Butter, whipping cream, and bacon? For kids with severe epilepsy, an unusual high-fat diet developed at Hopkins is proving nothing short of a miracle.

"The Tool of Tools" [June 1995]
...One that unlocks proteins, and therefore the genetic code. Hopkins researcher George Rose has learned how proteins "read" the genetic code of DNA, to create the very stuff of life.

"Historic Beginnings" [June 1996]
Scholars credit John Franklin Jameson more than any other individual for creating an academic profession of history in the United States. Diary excerpts from Jameson's years at Hopkins reveal an uncertain young man who was relentlessly critical of his colleagues--and of himself.

"In Search of Brother Number One" [Nov. 1997]
No journalist has persisted in covering Cambodia like Nate Thayer. His doggedness paid off last summer when he came face to face with the elusive Pol Pot.

"Candid About Cuba" [April 1998]
Wayne Smith has been called the dean of Castro's apologists by some, an enemy of the Cuban Revolution by others. He is unperturbed. "Right-minded people know that my position is really sensible," he says.

"Matters of Taste" [Nov. 1998]
Anthropologist Sidney Mintz has written the book (two of them, in fact) on food, what it reveals about culture, and how it affects history.

"The Story That Doesn't Compute" [Nov. 1999]
Mention the name of alumnus John Mauchly and you're apt to be met with a blank stare. Find out how one of the 20th centurys' great inventors slipped into obscurity.