“I, as an academic, am accustomed to seeing buildings with names like Newton, Copernicus, Darwin,” said Ponzy Lu, a chemistry professor at the university. “Then to see the name of this person, who is very fresh in our memory, who is not associated with a pursuit of knowledge — a gossip columnist: it strikes me as being totally idiotic.”Not associated with the pursuit of knowledge? Why just today I have learned that Nicole Kidman gave birth to a girl, that Amy Winehouse's husband has been photographed taking drugs in jail, that Madonna's brother is writing an unauthorized expose, and that the Jonas Brothers are on tour. Sounds like certain stuffy professors could use a little gossip in their lives.
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