Word: labs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Gilbert Lab Fraud...
Carl E. Fulwiler, a graduate student working inthe lab of Nobel Prize winning professor WalterGilbert '53, is being investigated for allegedresearch fraud...
...French to be the first to identify the AIDS virus. As portrayed by Alan Alda, Gallo is a self-glorifying skunk who dreams up publicity releases for himself before he has anything to publicize. "From this day," he muses to an aide after a good day in the lab, "Dr. Robert Gallo makes the first gigantic strides in winning the -- what, the war or the battle? . . ." The characterization is overdone, but the picture of the competitive underside of medical research operations rings true...
...MUDs are fashioned after medieval villages, with town squares, blacksmiths and churches. Others re-create science-fiction and fairy-tale settings, like C.S. Lewis' Narnia, Frank Herbert's Dune and the universe of Star Trek. Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have built a MUD model of their famous Media Lab, with offices and corridors corresponding to the real thing. One intrepid group of computer users constructed a section of the London Underground, complete with a virtual subway. MUDs come and go, drifting in and out of favor, but the current count is estimated at 300 worldwide, most of them accessible...
Director: Sheldon Czapnik Editorial Services: Christiana Walford (Director); Hanns Kohl (Photo Lab); Benjamin Lightman (Library), Beth Bencini Zarcone (Picture Collection...