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...talk to someone. And when the topic of Mental Health Services (or Room 13, the BSC, OSAPR, etc.) comes up, we should not just recount the juicy details of what (might have) happened to our roommate’s boyfriend’s teammates’s lab partner. Instead, we might offer that many people (say, eight people in every twenty person section) use them, and most find them helpful...
...generation of politicians is finally taking power in France. "Whoever is elected, it will mean an end to the gerontocracy. It's time to move to something more dynamic," he says. Pourquié left France out of frustration with the rigid state-funded scientific establishment - and because the American lab where he now works, the Stowers Institute for Medical Research, offered him a package of pay and perks that was four times what he was receiving back home. Yet he and his French wife are bringing up their young daughter bilingually and, he says, "I would come back as soon...
...Food and Drug Administration has confirmed 16 pet deaths, although anecdotal evidence suggests thousands more may have died because of the poisonous food. The FDA points to the inexplicable appearance of melamine, an industrial binding chemical used in plastic furniture, cookware, and in fertilizers overseas, as the likely cause. Lab tests found it in wheat gluten, a gravy thickener used in wet pet food. (Wheat gluten is also used in human food such as baked goods and meat substitutes, but there is no indication the tainted wheat gluten has made it into human food.) "The association between melamine...
...would show high calcium levels, which haven't been found. Says an FDA spokesman: "Our analysis of the premix indicates that vitamin levels were appropriate." Other theories floated to explain the bizarre deaths are aminopterin, or rat poison, which would cause the kind of kidney damage seen. An Albany lab found the substance in two pet food samples of canned foods, but the FDA has ruled these out because no other lab has been able to confirm the results...
...officer was dispatched to a report that a smokers post at the Biology Lab was smoking heavily. The officer arrived and reports that operations extinguished the smoke with water and all is in order...