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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...years Jeffrey lived with his grandmother in West Allis, Wis. During the late 1980s, Shari Dahmer recalled, a harsh chemical odor began to emanate from the basement and garage. When Jeffrey's father Lionel, a chemist, found "bones and the residue in the containers," Jeffrey told him that he had been stripping the flesh from an animal he had found. "Now I look at it, and I think that it's possible he was destroying human body parts," said Shari Dahmer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Little Flat of Horrors | 8/5/1991 | See Source »

...haze at the Grand Canyon, 400 miles away in the Arizona desert, is being blamed on Los Angeles. An air-quality study conducted since 1987 found traces of methyl chloroform, a chemical used in L.A.-based aerospace and electronics industries, in the canyon's atmosphere. Says Washington University chemist Warren White, one of the report's authors: "Even when you've left L.A., you can't escape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Urban Crisis: Everybody's Fall Guy | 6/10/1991 | See Source »

...workers describe Knowles, who chaired the Chemistry Department from 1980 to 1983, as a highly competent administrator. And they say that his attention to detail is just one of the characteristics that first brought the 55-year-old bio-organic chemist to the attention of University administrators selecting a new dean for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) in the early 1980s...

Author: By Maggie S. Tucker, | Title: The Man Behind the Lab Coat | 6/4/1991 | See Source »

...probably the world's number one bio-organic chemist," Corey says. "And there were all sorts of new research opportunities just then because of advances in molecular biology and synthetic chemistry...

Author: By Maggie S. Tucker, | Title: The Man Behind the Lab Coat | 6/4/1991 | See Source »

Because no dance department exists, the administration cannot hire any faculty whose specialty is dance. Because the Bakanowsky guidelines require credit courses to be taught by a faculty member, Harvard's best chance of acquiring a credit course in dance would be if a prominent bio-chemist just happened to know a little ballet on the side...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dance Receives No Credit at Harvard | 5/24/1991 | See Source »

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