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...store in Queens to presiding over a global cosmetics company. The daughter of Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe, she was enthralled by beauty and glamour, and her talent lay in convincing other women she could help them attain it. In the 1930s, with a face cream her uncle, a chemist, brewed up in his kitchen, ESTEE LAUDER traveled tirelessly to local beauty salons, demonstrating the product on women marooned under hair dryers. In 1948, after dogging the store's president, she was granted counter space at Saks Fifth Avenue. When, in the beginning, her advertising budget was meager, she hatched...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 5/3/2004 | See Source »

Several OEB professors told me that they’ve noticed a sea change from the previous administration of former Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles, himself a noted chemist, and the president he served, Neil L. Rudenstine—from whom they describe consistently favorable treatment. In part, this is due to a growing trend at Harvard towards centralization—with Allston and the growing push towards interdisciplinary—that increasingly pits science departments against each other. (But far from actually promoting interdepartmental collaboration, this instead seems to have generated an attitude of suspicion, where each...

Author: By J. hale Russell, | Title: War of the Roses (and Vertebrates) | 4/15/2004 | See Source »

Tucci says that “it would be very bad if someone is giving chemistry advice and that person is not a chemist,” but added that even if the center had advisers who were trained in different disciplines, its advice might be better left to the departments...

Author: By Alan J. Tabak, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Advising May Face Overhaul | 4/14/2004 | See Source »

...concentration advising, you need to talk to somebody who knows the field and knows the course work very well...I would be slightly suspicious of if there was an adviser out there who was not a chemist, but who would be a full-time, professional advisor in this advising center,” he says...

Author: By Alan J. Tabak, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Advising May Face Overhaul | 4/14/2004 | See Source »

...done the same in the world of cosmetics. When she stepped off the runway for good in 1989 Iman realized that other women of color were having the same problems with makeup that she had confronted before photo shoots. "As a model, I had to play chemist and mix and match foundations to find a skin tone suitable for me," she says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iman | 2/16/2004 | See Source »

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