"It's a nice rarity in science when people take not only unique but also productive paths," Craig Venter, who led a rival effort to the Human Genome Project, told me.
Supervising the youths and trying to steer them toward productive paths can sometimes be difficult for Father Braxton, who said that he had served at parishes in Rye, N.Y., and Teaneck, N.J., before taking on the duties at St. Andrew's.
While most probably still become manual laborers or minimum-wage toilers, our fast, new information-age economy allows some dropouts to move along productive paths rather than simply run from age-old conflicts.
That type of community-based therapy, meant to set young offenders on more productive paths in life, is a growing alternative to sending youths to notorious state-run juvenile prisons, which a state task force recently described as broken, ineffective and dangerous.
The tension between star and director was nevertheless productive: Paths of Glory is a dark, emotionally powerful film in which Douglas's passionate humanism tempers Kubrick's harsh, traumatic view of European history.
