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...federal grand jury indicted two former postdoctoral research fellows at Harvard Medical School (HMS) on June 17 on chargers related to thefts from the lab where they worked. The researchers were charged with Interstate Transportation of Stolen Property, an offense that carries a maximum of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. Their arraignment is set for July...
Chinese national Jiangyu Zhu, 33, and Japanese national Kayoko Kimbara, 35, who are married, have been living on bail in San Diego since their arrest nearly three years ago. They are accused of stealing materials from Professor of Cell Biology Frank D. McKeon’s lab at HMS in December, 1999, when both were preparing to leave Harvard for the University of Texas at San Antonio...
According to the indictment, Zhu and Kimbara had signed Participation Agreements agreeing that all of their discoveries and materials belonged to Harvard. After shipping the materials to Texas without authorization, they denied they took anything from the lab and allegedly concealed data. The indictment also alleges that they removed from the lab materials concerning the work of other scientists...
...first days in the other Cambridge, I went to morning tea with some people in the lab. As we sat down with our drinks and snacks, the conversation drifted to comparisons between Harvard and Cambridge. A postdoc offhandedly commented that a friend of hers, a graduate student from America, knew less chemistry than the typical British undergrad because American students spend so much time taking classes unrelated to their major. That mild complaint sums up the American “liberal arts education” belief that a broad education is beneficial to the development of the student...
...Soviets insisted in Iceland that the treaty be "strengthened" to confine SDI research to the science lab. The first official statement that this was the Soviets' goal came in Gorbachev's interview with TIME in August of last year, when the Soviet leader said Moscow would not object to "fundamental research" on new space weapons. In the end, his definition of permissible research could not be reconciled with Reagan's plans to push ahead with...