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...Japan Prize for 1989 was awarded yesterday to a Harvard organic chemist who has led the development of bio-organic substances used for therapy...
...right conditions, the glittering crystals can also be manufactured from a carbon- rich gas -- something the Navy's lab has in abundant supply. Its facilities abut Washington's giant Blue Plains Waste Water Treatment Plant, which each day generates 650,000 cu. ft. of methane (CH4). Tapping that supply, chemist James Butler passed a sample of the gas over a filament of tungsten glowing at 4,000 degrees F. To his delight, a sparkling film of synthetic diamonds began to appear. The searing heat had knocked carbon atoms loose from the methane, allowing them to settle, layer by layer, into...
...creating a heightened standard of "certified clean," a tiny California- based company called NutriClean has sent grocers scrambling to get an independent stamp of approval for their produce. Founded four years ago by Chemist Stanley Rhodes, the twelve-employee firm serves growers and grocers alike, sampling produce in the field and on supermarket loading docks. The NutriClean tests check for several pesticides that are not routinely screened by the Food and Drug Administration. Says Frank McMinn, vice president of advertising for Raley's, a 53-store Sacramento-based supermarket chain that was one of the first to tout its NutriClean...
There are also plenty of hazardous vapors. Says Chemist Gray Robertson, whose company in Fairfax, Va., has surveyed nearly 250 structures for foul indoor air: "The public tends to mistake tobacco smoke -- the only visible indoor contaminant -- for all pollution." Less readily detected are irritating fumes from copier-machine liquids, carbonless paper, paint, rugs, draperies, wall paneling and cleaning solvents. Many contain formaldehyde, which can cause nausea, rashes and menstrual irregularities. Ventilators also spew forth illness-causing bacteria and mold; such organisms find fertile breeding ground in air-conditioning and heating systems that are often turned off at night...
...proved especially challenging and exhausting: "For a year and a half that river was roaring through my head." Ballard believes the novel flowed naturally out of Empire of the Sun, from his memories of the "huge riverine world of Shanghai," where he grew up as the son of a chemist employed by a British textile company. Writing about that period in his life "opened a lot of interior doors and windows. I remember Shanghai as a place where anything was possible, where the collective imagination, for good and evil, was allowed full rein. I have spent my whole life...