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...Europe, which is years ahead of the U.S., pharmaceutical companies are aggressively pursuing male birth-control pills, reversible vasectomies and long-lasting vaccines. Even women in many Third World nations have more choices than their American counterparts. Observes Carl Djerassi, a Stanford chemist who helped develop the first Pill: "The U.S. is the only country other than Iran in which the birth-control clock has been set backward...
...Smithsonian Institution agrees, noting that societies may pay a price for doing nothing that outweighs ) the expense of prudent preparation. While the world hailed the 1987 Montreal Protocol, designed to reduce chlorofluorocarbon output, the destruction of the ozone layer continued to accelerate because of CFCs already in use. Atmospheric chemist Sherwood Rowland of the University of California at Irvine is worried that similar delays in dealing with global warming will produce a treaty that is "a perfect autopsy...
...Herschbach's husband, Baird Professor of Science Dudley Herschbach, says that his wife can handle the challenge. The Nobel Prize-winning chemist calls his wife's new career an exercise in "human chemistry...
...Herschbach's husband, Baird Professor of Science Dudley Herschbach, says that his wife can handle the challenge. The Nobel Prize-winning chemist calls his wife's new career an exercise in "human chemistry...
...Herschbach's husband, Baird Professor of Science Dudley Herschbach, says that his wife can handle the challenge. The Nobel Prize-winning chemist calls his wife's new career an exercise in "human chemistry...