| MERCHANTS OF IMMORTALITY Chasing the Dream of Human Life Extension Stephen S. Hall Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2003 |
Rating: 4.5 High |
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| ISBN 0-618-09524-1 | 439pp. | HC | $25.00 | |
| Pages 14-15: | "These are the cells that traveled in the backseat of Hayflick's family sedan..." |
| Missing space: S/B "back seat". |
| Page 51: | "So, just as you'd go to Newcastle to look for coals, Blackburn and Greider..." |
| S/B "coal". |
| Page 60: | "The first time I met West, in November 1999, he gave what I later realized was a vintage performance on the biology of aging." |
| Word choice: S/B "a virtuoso performance". |
| Page 77: | "Thinking back on his spellbinding talk at Redwood Shores more than a decade later, one quality stuck out in Walton's mind." |
| Dangling participle: S/B "Walton remembered one quality of West's above all". |
| Page 88: | "...Geron obtained its patent, but this skirmish adverted to the kinds of squabbles that could, and would, occur..." |
| Word choice: The Oxford Dictionary of Current English defines "advert" as a noun, a shortened form of "advertisement." |
| Page 355: | "...a lack of faith that we can discriminate between desirable uses and undesirable misuses a lack of social and political faith that we can, if necessary, adapt to unpredictable consequences that might inadvertently ensue. " |
| Missing comma: S/B "misuses, a lack". |
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