Word: labs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Wednesday, November 15, the Nat Sci 3 staff found a successful alternative chemical, methylene chloride, which was used exclusively in the lab starting Thursday. The staff deserves credit for the quick action taken to find a substitute for EDB. But it was irresponsible to needlessly expose students to this suspected human carcinogen in the Tuesday and Wednesday labs...
...light of this uncertainty, and the unprecedented carcinogenicity displayed by EDB in the NCI animal study, it would seem that Ware and Vaida were taking temporary chances with other peoples' health, for the sake of an introductory chemistry lab. Their decision disregarded NCI's conclusion that its findings indicate a potential threat to human health...
...Clinics are also guilty of shoddy record keeping; falsifying records of patients' vital signs; failing to order postoperative pathology reports; and ignoring, scrambling or losing results of lab tests...
Anti-nuclear activists, union organizers, feminists, and a Nobel laureate joined in the commemoration of Silkwood, a nuclear lab technician and union organizer who died in a mysterious car accident in November...
...test whether insects could also be set aglow, Callahan and Mankin in their lab generated electric fields comparable to those produced during storms. They then confined within the fields several species of insects, including predatory stinkbugs and spruce budworms. The results were invariably the same: the bugs, consisting, as the scientists note, of an excellent dielectric (the exoskeleton) surrounding an electrolyte (the body fluids), displayed brilliantly colored flares from such external points as their antennae, leg joints and jaws. Write Callahan and Mankin: "There is absolutely no doubt that, given the right weather conditions, nature can produce a high enough...