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...more hopeful diagnosis was provided by William Brown, associate professor of biological sciences at Carnegie-Mellon University. Both respiratory ailments and blindness in people exposed to low levels of the gas will, said Brown, "go away. A chemical reaction is taking place in which the molecules of isocyanate will be turned over and excreted by the system." Even Brown, however, conceded that Bhopal residents who received higher dosages would not be so fortunate. Those who endured total whitening of the eyes would, he admitted, never recover their sight, and those whose lungs were totally coated with gas would probably...
...Mellon Professor of the Humanities Zeph Stewart will take at least a one-year leave of absence from the Classics Department to "plan and coordinate the center's activities," he said yesterday. A member of the faculty since 1953, Stewart will assume command this summer...
Founded in 1961 by Harvard and the Old Dominion Foundation--now called the Mellon Foundation--the center serves as a "residential study complex" for post-doctoral scholars studying classical Greek culture, Stewart said...
Heritage was founded with a grant of $250,000 from Joseph Coors, the Colorado brewing magnate and backer of conservative causes. Today it receives about a third of its $ 10 million annual budget from foundations, many of them begun by ideological sympathizers like Pittsburgh Moneyman Richard Mellon Scaife and Industrialist John Olin. Another third is contributed by business corporations, though Heritage's rigid opposition to Government regulation and protectionism has angered executives of some major corporations that profit from such measures. The final third comes from 130,000 individual donors...
Ever since its protesters disrupted Easter Sunday services in Pittsburgh's wealthiest Presbyterian church, Denominational Ministry Strategy has become the best-publicized clergy group in Pennsylvania. Made up largely of Lutherans and Episcopalians, DMS and its militant labor-union allies want to force the Mellon Bank and U.S. Steel to pump more money into the sagging local economy. Among its tactics: repeated harassment at worship services attended by executives and disruption of bank operations, notably by putting dead fish in safe-deposit boxes and skunk oil in ventilation ducts. Last week the noisome style of DMS culminated...