The long-distance call came about 8pm while Eleanor Catton was cooking dinner. “Everything is about to change, your life is about to change,” the voice from England said
Things might have turned out differently for Osama bin Laden–and for the denizens of southern Manhattan–if the tall, thin, soft-spoken 44-year-old hadn’t been born rich, or if he’d been born rich but not a second-rank Saudi.
Oliver Yeh is the kind of guy who cooks up ideas so kooky, so out-of-this-world, that even his fellow MIT students tend to roll their eyes when they hear them.