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Word: chapterful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...know that the experiences you wrote about are linked to the worries that I have now. I think, though, that you discussed your resolutions of my universal feelings. You wrote Chapter One. Perhaps some year incoming freshmen will be invited to write a Prologue...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Prologue | 9/28/1976 | See Source »

...international structure of SftP presently consists of a more or less informal communication among about 40 locations, mostly in the U.S., with active chapters in Los Angeles, Berkeley, Chicago, Ann Arbor, and Stony Brook, N.Y. The largest and most active chapter remains in Boston where the organization's bi-monthly magazine Science for the People is published. Local headquarters are at 897 Main Street in Cambridge, just off Mass Ave, halfway between Harvard...

Author: By Peter Frawley, | Title: Keeping science accountable | 9/24/1976 | See Source »

...many members of SftP, science in China represents a possible alternative to the American system. In 1973, several SftP members visited China and wrote a book about their experiences called China. Science Walks on Two Legs. There is a China study group in the Boston chapter that is currently planning another trip...

Author: By Peter Frawley, | Title: Keeping science accountable | 9/24/1976 | See Source »

...internal structure of the Boston chapter reflects SftP's anti-elitism. There are no officers; instead, a steering committee made up of the office staff person and representatives of the several activity groups arrive at all decisions collectively. Gordon says there are about 100 active members in the chapt defined as such by their attendance at weekly meetings in the various activity groups. About four times that number are active sporadically, he says...

Author: By Peter Frawley, | Title: Keeping science accountable | 9/24/1976 | See Source »

Members of the Boston chapter say an especially important activity group deals with occupational health and safety. Presently this group provides information and technical support to scientific workers in laboratories. Diana Echevarria, a member of SftP and a former research assistant at the Harvard Biology Laboratories, for example, has acted as a liason between SftP and the Harvard Employees Organizing Committee (HEOC), of which she is also a member. This relationship supports HEOC's drive to secure representation on the Branton Committee charged with setting safety standards for the recombinant DNA experiments at the Bio Labs...

Author: By Peter Frawley, | Title: Keeping science accountable | 9/24/1976 | See Source »

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