By ELLEN GOODMAN I am sitting at the breakfast table taking my medicine. This drug is a cup of coffee formerly identified by its native and urban origins: Sumatra and Peet's.

By Ellen Goodman BOSTON -- I am sitting at the breakfast table taking my medicine. This drug is a cup of coffee formerly identified by its native and urban origins: Sumatra and Peet's.

By Ellen Goodman BOSTON -- I have a friend who

By Ellen Goodman BOSTON -- By now you may be forgiven for suspecting that science is tinted -- if not entirely tainted -- by politics. The arguments over evolution and global warming alone are enough to make anyone believe that we have red and blue science as well as red and blue states.

By Ellen Goodman BOSTON -- By now you may be forgiven for suspecting that science is tinted -- if not entirely tainted -- by politics. The arguments over evolution and global warming alone are enough to make anyone believe that we have red and blue science as well as red and blue states.