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There are, of course, intelligent citizens of goodwill who also ignore politics. One of the glories of our society is that they can do so safely. The engineer, chemist or doctor hard put to keep up with the demands of his profession for study and knowledge; the artist, musician or scholar totally engrossed in her field -- in a totalitarian society they would not be allowed to be apolitical. To advance in their professions they would have to join The Party and devote some time to propagandizing for it. In a democratic country a physicist can pass up any participation...
...those who can afford it escape the inner city each night to suburban safety, the cold- blooded slaying of Basu touched nerves long numbed by statistics, destroying any notion that only a life of vice could lead to such a death. Pamela Basu, 34, was an award-winning research chemist with W.R. Grace & Co. The Indian-born scientist is described by colleagues as a vibrant and outspoken intellectual who doted on her daughter. They recall the endless obstacles she and her husband Biswanath overcame to adopt the little girl named Sarina...
Caroline Hunter said she was terminated after she and a colleague exposed Polaroid's ties to the South African government in 1971, when she worked as a chemist at the film company. Hunter's protests helped to start the divestment movement in the U.S., according to Radcliffe Career Services Director Phyllis Stein, the panel's moderator...
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...