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Wavering in confusion between these two schools of thought are the vast majority of Americans, wondering whom to believe. They have heard the gospel % of vitamin C as preached by the great chemist Linus Pauling, but they have also heard him ridiculed by health authorities. They may feed their children chewable vitamin tablets, but they question whether the pills are worth the high price. "I'd be thrilled to know what's right and to have someone tell me what to do," says Jane Traulsen, a mother of two who lives in White Plains, N.Y. "But all the information...
...Mallinckrodt Professor of Chemistry George M. Whitesides '60 is a long shot at best because sources in the administration have indicated that Rudenstine will not select a scientist. He has already appointed a chemist, Houghton Professor of Chemistry Jeremy R. Knowles, to an-other top University post, the Faculty deanship...
...Balm, a salve for milk cows with, ah, dry skin, has become a popular hand cream. Recently a blacksmith and a chemist on New York's Long Island discovered that Dry Hoof Solution, a horse medication, strengthens nails. & Coming soon as an outlet for such products: Barn-Mart...
...common suggestions is, 'Why don't we just ship L.A.'s ozone up?' " says chemist Sherwood Rowland. "Well, 30% of the ozone is in the stratosphere, and it drifts down from there to the lower atmosphere rather than the other way around. The energy that would be needed to move the ozone up is about 2 1/2 times all of our current global power use. If you could take every power plant in the world, every piece of coal and every oil tanker, the energy would be insufficient -- and then you'd still have the problem...
Evans says that the synthetic organic chemist has an advantage over nature, in that reaction conditions can be regulated in the laboratory. While in nature, these reactions occur in an "ocean of chemicals," the contents of the test tubes can be controlled...