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Professor Daniel Branton told members of his Bio 7A class last Monday that they didn't have to go to the Boston Marathon to see great athletes--the National Diving Champion, Dan Watson, was in that very class...
...open hearing, Councilor Saundra Graham questioned city officials about the prospect of Cambridge citizens "bending down and mopping floors behind scientists" instead of having the kind of meaningful jobs the city intended as part of its renewal plans for Kendall Square, the site for the planned bio-labs...
...professional as some people claim, but looking at this semester's top ten classes, you'd never know. Social Analysis 10, "Principles of Economics," once again topped the list of high-enrollment courses, with Ronald Dworkin's "Philosophy of Law" coming in not far behind. Biology 7a--the introductory bio course--rounded out the popularity troika with 422 students enrolled...
...range of other industries is also growing up in the region. Some say it should really be called the Siliclone Valley because of the 16 genetic-engineering companies now located there. Robert Swanson, an M.B.A. from M.I.T., and Biochemist Herbert Boyer, for example, started Genentech. Collagen Corp., a bio-medical products company in Palo Alto, makes a biological implant called Zyderm, which helps remove the effects of scars from the human skin. Companies like Coherent Radiation in Palo Alto are doing pioneering work in the industrial use of lasers...
...Anything you can think of, we usually have two of 'em," says Al Bachmeier, a collections manager for the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum. "After you count 40 bio-belt pouches (for collecting and transmitting information about heart and respiratory functions) from the astronauts, you begin to wonder why you need...