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...Steve Keefe, 27, a Honeywell chemist, won a state senate seat from his south Minneapolis district last year, now spends more than half his time away from his job, politicking. "The company has been really good about it," says Keefe. "I come and go as I please and they reduce my salary accordingly. Frankly, I go more than I come." If he is sacrificing a promising and lucrative career for the vagaries of politics, Keefe has no regrets. "People in politics," he says, "are in it either for the power or they are idealistic. Most of the people I have...
Americans discard more than 3,000,000 tons of plastic every year. Most of it ends up in local dumps, creating mountains of nonrotting, nonrusting, immortal trash. Three years ago, a team of scientists led by a University of Toronto chemist designed a plastic that would self-destruct in direct sunlight; a company in Delaware offers a kind of cellulose that dissolves in water; another in Idaho is marketing a process that makes styrene products break down into photodegradable substances. But such products have been handicapped by high costs or limited applicability...
...British Chemist Gerry Griffin, of Brunei University near London, claims that he has discovered a simple additive that will cause any plastic to decompose in the dump. Griffin will announce the discovery of what he calls "Additive X" this month at the semiannual meeting of the American Chemical Society in Chicago. He says that the substance, mixed with plastic during the manufacturing process, is easily attacked and broken down by enzymes normally found in topsoil. When these additive particles are gone, the once glassy and impermeable plastic is left as a porous, sponge-like substance that naturally decomposes...
...sheet hung on two sticks with "OWSLY" written on it. After an absence of about a year, during which time he was reportedly in jail, the famous Owlsley was back in touch with his old friends from the Haight Ashbury days, the Grateful Dead. Owlsley was the chemist in the Electric Kool Aid Acid Test who mixed up the best acid on the coast, and who personally mixed up the kool aid for the acid test for Kesey, the Dead, and the Merry Pranksters in 1967. Now Owsley the brilliant technician had helped design the sound system for the Grateful...
Kane, 54, earned a Ph.D. in physical chemistry from M.l.T. in 1943, joined Du Pont the same year, and rose through the company's textile branches. Shapiro, 57, is a courtly lawyer. He will become the first chief of Du Pont who is neither a chemist nor engineer, and has not spent his full career with the company...