Rubén Polendo grew up in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, along the U.S. border, where gathering around a table “to celebrate, to mourn, to be confused, to argue” was standard, he said. He trained as a biochemist, but missed the emotional resonance of the inquiry he’d felt at the communal table. “Great things lay in that exchange,” he said. “New ideas come out of…
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