"One Stop Shopping" We can do it all I've taken ever since." After leaving Moment, Weiner became an editor at The Sciences, the magazine of the New York Academy of Sciences. Next came the compan- ion book to a seven-part public tele- vision series, Planet Earth. Completing his own projects has occupied Weiner for 20 years with stints teaching at Princeton University, Rockefeller University "The vista of evolution in action, of evolu- tion in the flesh, has enormous implications for our sense of reality, of what life is, and for our sense of power, of what we can do with life." - Jonathan Weiner and Arizona State University. An early morning writer, he advises his students to write in the same time frame when their perspectives are fresh and plan on many drafts so their craft evolves. "I pick my book topics after falling in love with stories and a whole con- stellation of factors that come together," says Weiner, married to children's author Deborah Heiligman (she often writes about science, as well) and the father of two sons. "There have to be fascinating people involved, important ideas and excit- ing research. Beyond that, somehow or other I have to feel that the story is playing my song. Then, I can take it up and sing, too." Weiner, currently working on a book about human longevity, has other texts on the market. Time, Love, Memory: A Great Biologist and His Quest for the Origins of Behavior (Vintage Books; $14) serves as a sequel to The Beak of the Finch and examines the work of Jewish scientist Seymour Benzer as he tackles the effects of genes on personalities. Published in 1999, it won the National Book Critics Circle Award. 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