Word: ester
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fulfillment for which I was searching. But as my junior year drew to a close, I made a startling realization: I didn't enjoy being pre-med. I was never the first to rush to see the grades when they were posted. I never understood how to synthesize an ester. And I never could calculate the force and friction of an object sliding down a ramp...
...very impressed with the student turnout--the diversity was great," senior Donald Ester said...
...brink of bankruptcy, mayors have had to work hard just to stay afloat: they literally can no longer afford to preside over bloated bureaucracies or coddle unions at contract time. "There's just a different set of problems mayors are facing today," says Barnard College political science professor Ester Fuchs. "If they want to have cities at all, the name of the game is keeping their budgets balanced, keeping the business community and the middle class happy, and coming up with programs that work...
...scientists already knew that fats belong to a class of compounds known as esters, which are made from acid molecules linked with alcohol molecules. So they started tinkering with the number of fatty acids that could be attached to a molecule of alcohol. In the process, they made an unexpected discovery. In laboratory animals, an ester composed of an alcohol and one fatty acid was pretty well digested and absorbed. But two fatty acids were better, and three were better still. The chemists reasonably assumed they could keep adding more...