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...rapidly expanding business, which got a strong boost last year by the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling that new life forms are patentable. (The first gene-splicing patent was for Boyer and Cohen's work.) Nor is Boyer, who remains at the University of California, the only academician with commercial ties. In 1980 dozens of scientists signed up with gene-engineering firms...
Enlightened self-interest may seem reasonable, but it has a cutting edge. Asks one prominent French academician: "Would the U.S. have imposed sanctions against Iran if European diplomats had been seized...
...career had begun. If one were told that Science and Charity, Picasso's sickbed scene from 1897, with its rather conventional drawing but adroit paint handling (especially in the details, like the frame of the mirror above the bed), had been done by a 30-year-old Spanish academician, one would have predicted a competent future for the man. Once one realizes that it was painted by a boy not yet 16, the skill seems portentous, like a visitation?and that is the general impression conveyed by Picasso's earliest work...
...costly, complex Government require ments that carmakers consider an outrageous cross to bear. "When you think of all the things the industry has to do to get a car on the market, you realize what a gap there is," says Nattress. The words sound more reassuring from an independent academician. Convinced, however, that Detroit is holding out on him about the fuel-efficient car, the car owner asks Paisley why VW and Datsun and Honda get such good mileage and Detroit...
...also running low and has resorted to costly tertiary recovery methods in some of its fields. Solar energy, which Americans hope eventually will ease their energy problems, is not taken seriously by Soviet scientists, who, for the most part, seem not only highly competent but almost aggressively realistic. Explains Academician Alexander Sheindlin, director of the Soviet Union's High Temperature Institute: "The U.S.S.R. is a northern country. We cannot rely on the sun for energy...