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Mercury and Oil. Bruce McDuffie, a bearded chemist at the State University of New York at Binghamton, is the man who recently discovered mercury in U.S. canned tuna (TIME, Dec. 21). In Rome, he reported also finding high mercury levels in commercial swordfish. Reason: according to an American paper presented at the Rome conference, industry is now dumping 5,000 tons of mercury into the oceans each year. Because fish hold mercury in their systems for as long as 500 days, the contamination can travel over vast areas...
Follow the Tracks. Johnson has always acted to keep the odds in his favor. During the first months of his firm's operation, he held his job as production chemist at Chicago's Fuller Products Co., a black-owned cosmetics firm. He moonlighted nights and weekends, making the hair straightener in a rented place. Then he hustled as a one-man sales force through the city's black barbershops, and soon his swings took him to Indianapolis, Detroit and beyond. Working the black ghettos, he never needed research to pinpoint his sales area. "I knew...
...creamy liquid is told among other things to avoid several common varieties and to buy others, notably Cheddar, only when aged. The section on the mysterious ways of chocolate might have been written by a scientist. In fact, after finishing Field, the reader may feel more like a chemist than an alchemist, but the results are reliable, as they are intended...
...Chemist Linus Pauling, twice a Nobel laureate, was on the list (described as "affiliated with" the Communist Party); so were Author (The American Way of Death) Jessica Mitford (also alleged to be connected with the Communist Party) and Social Critic Nat Hentoff (for affiliation with the Socialist Workers Party, S.D.S. and the Spring Mobilization Committee to End the War in Viet Nam). The list also contained the names of many self-proclaimed radicals, among them Yippie Founder Abbie Hoffman, Pacifist David Dellinger, Black Panther National Chairman Bobby Scale and Black Panther Fred Hampton (although he was slain in a Chicago...
Vodka Glass. How could so skilled a chemist have allowed sweat to contaminate his equipment? The explanation is simple, says Purdue University Chemist Robert Davis, who collaborated with Rousseau and confirmed his conclusions with other analytic techniques. Every person is surrounded by an invisible cloud of organic salts that have evaporated from the skin and been expelled from the lungs; these tiny pollutants may well be absorbed by the porous glass of laboratory beakers and flasks. Thus polywater-which is made by letting steam condense inside hair-thin glass tubes-could pick up impurities even in the hands...