Word: labs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sedgwick, the villainous "ten-time Nobel prize loser," seeks to ruin Superman's reputation in Metropolis. Strongly played by Fred Barton, the mad doctor epitomizes nurdiness; he is the science wonk par excellence, dressed in white lab coat, sneakers, and ABC sportscaster's plaid pants. One of the best moments in the play comes when Sedgwick daintily galivants across the stage, trilling his song "Revenge," and rolling the "r" at each refrain...
...campus. So too did Los Angeles Businessman Norman Church. Wrongly accused of drugging a horse that won a local race, he appealed to Caltech's chemistry department for help. The professors exonerated Church, and the businessman gratefully gave the school $ 1 million for construction of a new biology lab...
...four levels below, to the world's newest, most sophisticated center for musical experiment and composition, officially titled Institut de Recherche et de Coordination Acoustique/Musique. IRCAM is a hushed place that fairly radiates energy and cerebration. Here the ordinateur, as the French call a computer, reigns. In one lab, a group is seeking its aid in constructing a new, futuristic flute. In another, a composer is using it to produce a sound heard so far only in his own head...
...demonstrated all too clearly the folly of the scientists' oversight. Lear describes the controversy that pitted Harvard scientists and administrators against the Cambridge City Council as originating with Harvard's proposal for a new special containment laboratory which would conform to the new NIH guidelines -- the same lab scheduled to open here in a few days. At a hostile and emotional City Council meeting, the scientists confronted the Cambridge community. After the dust settled, the council imposed a three-month moratorium on all recombinant DNA research in Cambridge while the Cambridge Experimental Review Board drew up the present city ordinance...
...possible, however, that the new $600,000 lab will contain more safety precautions than required under the newest revision of the federal government's regulations governing recombinant DNA research. Although the national regulations have been relaxed, Cambridge's ordinance mandating slightly stricter guidelines remains the same. One scientist has predicted the discrepancy between the national and the local guidelines could lead to another Harvard-Cambridge confrontation...