- Gina Kolata
Gina Kolata (born in
Baltimore, Maryland ,February 25 ,1948 ) is ascience journalist for "The New York Times ". Her sister was the environmental activistJudi Bari , and her mother was the mathematicianRuth Aaronson Bari .Kolata studied molecular biology as a graduate student at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology and received a master's degree in mathematics from the University of Maryland. She started working for "The New York Times" in the 1980s. She is a "self-proclaimed exercise addict (who thinks nothing of a 100-mile bike ride as a reward)" according to a "Times" advertisement for itself. [Advertising supplement (with no title, but part of the "These Times Demand the Times" advertising campaign, as noted on the supplement's back page) to "The New York Times",October 31 ,2006 , page ZK7 of the supplement]Books
*"Clone: The Road to Dolly, and the Path Ahead", ISBN 0-688-16634-2
*"Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus that Caused It", ISBN 0-7432-0398-4
*"Sex in America: A Definitive Survey", ISBN 0-316-07524-8 (out of print )
*"The Baby Doctors: Probing the Limits of Fetal Medicine", ISBN 0-440-21011-9 (out of print)
*"Ultimate Fitness: The Quest for Truth about Health and Exercise", ISBN 0-374-20477-2
*cite book |title=Rethinking Thin: The new science of weight loss - and the myths and realities of dieting |publisher=Picador |location= |year=2007 |pages= |isbn=0-312-42785-9Notes
External links
* [http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/k/gina_kolata/index.html Recent and archived news articles by Gina Kolata] of "The New York Times".
* [http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Gina_Kolata Sourcewatch article on Gina Kolata]
* [http://www.rethinkingthin.com Rethinking Thin by Gina Kolata, Official Book site]
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