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Responding to Wall Street's concern, the genetic engineering firms began hiring employees who wore business suits instead of lab smocks. In 1983 Cetus brought in a new president, Robert Fildes, who had been a vice president of operations at Bristol-Myers, a major pharmaceutical company. Fildes quickly recruited a cadre of experienced managers with M.B.A.s, including some of his old colleagues from Bristol-Myers. He also pared back Cetus' rambling research to focus on projects with the most commercial potential. The company is now testing its version of interferon, a promising anticancer agent, and hopes to have the product...
...owners, who look like refugees from a '60s commune. Pals since they were in high school in Merrick, N.Y., Cohen and Greenfield decided in 1977 that making ice cream would be more fun than what they were doing. Having failed to get into medical school, Greenfield was then a lab technician in North Carolina, and Cohen was a pottery teacher at a school in New York. After taking a $5 correspondence course in ice cream making from Penn State, the two set up shop in Burlington and gradually began to peddle their product to restaurants and stores in the area...
...that really bothered me, though, is the hateful “Robot Rock.” The beat has this horrible riff that sounds like it came off the most annoying effect on the keyboards in your Long Island high school’s bootleg “piano lab.” It’s this kind of aural insult that led fans to accuse the prerelease leakings of the album to be the work of imposter hacks...
...When lab is over, return to your room and draw the curtains shut. Assemble the stolen equipment on a clean, dry workspace—preferably near a fan, so that work can quickly become pleasure...
...last suggestion: be creative! A bong is only one of the many enjoyable paraphernalia made possible by the Organic Chemistry Lab. Past projects include a pipe and a life-sized, space shuttle-themed hotbox. Next Week: Special Brownies in the Bio Labs’s Thermal Cyclers...