Emily Oster

is a PhD student at Harvard. She seems to have created a stir several months back with a paper linking Hepatitis B infection rates to Asia's missing women. Now there is a Slate article written by Levitt and Dubner about her.

Personally, I think its an excuse to talk about a chick who sits poolside on vacation in Las Vegas reading Hepatitis B: The Hunt for a Killer Virus. Is that not the perfect woman?