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According to Adams’ website, the controversial book drew the ire of radio host Rush Limbaugh and columnist John Leo...
Plastics Bakelite is not sexy. But when New York chemist Leo Baekeland invented it in 1907 by tightly controlling the heat and pressure of volatile chemical reactions, he created the first completely synthetic substance. Hardened and shaped, Bakelite--or phenol formaldehyde--was impervious to heat, acids and electricity, allowing its use in everything from cookware to adhesives to car electrical systems. Chemists were soon making all sorts of polymers, launching a plastic century...
...We’ve had a couple of excellent ones in the past year or two,” Bernbaum Professor of Literature Leo Damrosch said of distinguished English department recruits. “But this is a great...
...almost certain to rekindle some of the thrill of space exploration for a world that has seen precious little of it lately. Says Squyres: "Hey, if you can't have fun building spacecraft and sending them to Mars, give it up, man!" --Reported by Dan Cray/Los Angeles and Leo Cendrowicz/Brussels
Above his computer hangs a black and white photograph of Leo Strauss, a professor of political philosophy whose desire to revive traditional approaches to the field spawned an influential movement in conservative politics...