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...group of international writers, among them Phillip Roth, came to the rescue of Dongala. Roth had met the author in 1980 during one of his visits to the U.S. and the two formed a lasting friendship. Although Dongala was in town for business related to his work as a chemist, he was writing extensively, and his first book, Un Fusil dans le Main, Une Poeme dans la Poche (A Gun in the Hand, a Poem in the Pocket) had already won him prizes for the best French novel written by a non-Frenchman. When Roth heard Dongala was trapped...
DIED. HENRY BROWN, 93, chemist who discovered that sulfurous organic compounds could make chrome more brilliant; in Palo Alto, Calif. His innovation produced shinier faucets, sparklier bumpers and brighter pennies...
...over the project to keep the 30-year saga moving. In Johnny Depp he has a star who can commandeer the camera, however flimsy George's motives are. Depp gets some smart support from Paul Reubens as the world's friendliest, queeniest middleman, and Bobcat Goldthwaite as a chemist floored by the quality of the product ("I can't feel my face!"). But painting the bigger picture is tough work. Blow works for a scene or two, then stalls. That's the nature of a story that is episodic but not epic. It has to drag itself uphill toward...
...chemicals needed to synthesize such drugs are tracked by authorities, a change from the Shulgins' day. And even if the ingredients were widely available, the scientific expertise is not. According to David Nichols, a student of Shulgin's who is now a professor of chemistry at Purdue, "The underground chemist is typically not going to discover a completely new psychoactive substance. The kinds of things that are easy to make, by and large, have been made...
...size of the Insight and Prius is a potential turnoff for consumers, who fear collisions with gargantuan SUVs. "I'd like to use less gas," says Laura Blalock, a Memphis, Tenn., chemist. "But I can't enjoy saving Mother Earth if I'm worrying about getting squashed like a bug." Customers like Blalock won't have long to wait for heftier hybrids. In 2003, Ford will produce a hybrid version of its Escape sport utility, expected to get 40 m.p.g. By then, Toyota's hybrid minivan, the Estima, will probably have reached the U.S. market, along with a hybrid Honda...