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...between the University and its corporate friends. Krimsky, while not familiar with the specifics of the Harvard-Monsanto ties, criticizes the University for not making public the details of its contracts with the company. Harvard has not made public the contract with Monsanto or the recently announced one with DuPont, instead releasing summaries of both. "I can't understand what reason they could have for keeping the contracts secret, other than that they have something to hide," Krimsky says...
...attention in this area this spring when two weeks after one of its teaching hospitals, the Massachusetts General Hospital, announced it had received a $60-million grant from the German chemical firm Hoechst, the Medical School announced that it had received a $6-million grant of its own from DuPont. Both of the grants will fund research in the controversial field of recombinant...
...researchers involved with corporation grants, at least at Harvard, steadfastly maintain that their academic integrity has not been compromised. While it is still much too early to determine the success or failure of agreements like the recent one with DuPont. Harvard officials point to a tie formed seven years ago between the University and a large midwestern chemical firm, as an example of a successful linkage between a corporation and an academic institution...
...long-term grant of $23 million for research to be conducted under the guidance of two Medical School professors. The announcement surprised--and provoked--many scientists at Harvard and nationwide, and some of the same questions were raised which have since been brought up in relation to the DuPont and the Hoechst deals...
...covers the death-and-dying scene from the specific--"The Fairbairn-Sykes Fighting Knife"--to the more general--"Holocaust Now!" It is chock full of "intelligence reports," including this "critical piece of intelligence from Washington, D.C." Just after the election of Ronald Reagan, a clandestine session was held near DuPont Circle in the nation's capital. At that meeting, the cream of the old radical circuit sat down to plan out the formation of an "anti-Reagan" movement, modeled on the anti-war movement of past decades. This tidbit comes in a column titled "Terrorism Today." For graphic interest, "Terrorism...