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Article: A tale of two cities & two towns: Part II
- Article from:
- The American Biology Teacher
- Article date:
- February 1, 1996
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CopyrightCopyright National Association of Biology Teachers Feb 1996. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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The last time I had seen Paris was in 1983. The dollar was strong, Bob and I were almost newlyweds, and visiting Paris was like a delayed honeymoon. By our second visit in 1995, a number of things had changed, besides the exchange rate. We went to Paris in 1983 because Bob was doing research on a 19th-century French economist, and in his spare time, studying what he really loved, art history. I, on the other hand, was doing research on nothing. In the years since, I found an area of study I love, the aesthetic of biology, and Bob has gotten interested in how science was popularized in 19th-century France. So you could say that we've grown together, intellectually, since our last trip to ...