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...said Harvard coach Ted Donato ’91 in early December, “very much a part of our success whenever we win.” The statement is obvious enough: when good players play well, it tends to help the team. And that night, Du had left his signature on two of the Crimson’s scores in a 3-2 win over Quinnipiac. But Donato wasn’t done speaking about his speedy center. “The unfortunate part about it,” the coach added, scratching his head...
...skaters was going to take a penalty shot—retribution, in other words, after a Tiger was whistled for delaying the game. It wasn’t a hard choice. “Duuuuuuuuuu,” the Bright Hockey Center crowd chanted in unison: “Du! Du! Du!” Only when Donato sent pivot Kevin Du onto the ice for the shot did the fans quiet—although the collective groan they let out seconds later, when Du propelled the puck high, echoed throughout the building. “Did the goalie touch...
TEFLON In 1938 Roy Plunkett, a young Du Pont chemist, was trying to find a new kind of refrigerant for manufacturers and filled a tank with a gas related to Freon. When he opened it later, he found he had accidentally created a slippery white powder. General Leslie Groves, heading the Manhattan Project to build the atom bomb, heard about the substance from a Du Pont friend when his scientists were looking for a material for gaskets that could resist the bomb's corrosive gas, uranium hexafluoride. Groves had Du Pont make Teflon for the bomb, but it wasn...
...that the next round of innovations in networking is done in India or China. How many years is it before either Cisco relocates to India or China and grows most of its new jobs there or the next Cisco is actually created there?" That's not so farfetched, says Du Pont CEO Chad Holliday: "If the U.S. doesn't get its act together, Du Pont is going to go to the countries that do, and so are IBM and Intel. We'd much rather be here, but we have an obligation to our employees and shareholders to bring value where...
Another problem has been the tarnished image of science itself. Catchphrases that felt inspiring in the 1950s--"Better living through chemistry," "Atoms for peace"--have a darker connotation today. Du Pont, which invented nylon, became known as well for napalm. Chernobyl and Three Mile Island soured Americans on nuclear power. Shuttle crashes and a defective Hubble telescope made NASA look inept. Substances from DDT to PCBs to ozone-eating chlorofluorocarbons proved more dangerous than anyone realized. Drug disasters like the thalidomide scandal made some people nervous about the unintended consequences of new drug treatments. It's in that context...