Word: birchler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Associate Professor of Biology James A. Birchler says the labs at Harvard are comparable to those at any research university. Birchler, who came to Harvard three years ago from the University of California, Berkeley, says that the lab space was one of the factors that convinced him to join the Harvard faculty...
...When I was interviewing for positions I looked at five places, and in terms of lab space Harvard had the best to offer," Birchler says. "That was certainly one of the considerations in my coming here...
...trick in the crack trade, police say, is to keep people in line. If the Chamberses' recruits tried to flee, the brothers knew where to find them. "A Chicago kid might be able to leave, but not a kid from Marianna," says the town's police chief, Mark Birchler...
...sometimes deliberately shorted the boys on the crack that was parceled out for them to sell. When the receipts came up short, the boys were forced to work off their shortages, which kept them in bondage for months at a time. "They ran everything on fear and intimidation," says Birchler...