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Under the Du Pont and Hoechst agreements, the grant recipient still retains the patents for discoveries made with corporate funds, but the companies are given exclusive licenses to develop and market any products that result. One concern described in an interview by Doris Merritt, a research and training resources officer at NIH, is that private benefactors will pressure scientists to hold off on patenting their innovations--keeping them secret--until the discoveries "are fine-tuned and ready to be sold." In what has become a widely quoted warning, Merritt told the NIH conference. "Publish or perish doesn't need...
...through encouraging schools to keep track of what they are getting into," says an aide to Gore. And when the emotional speeches about Faustian dilemmas give way to policy making, universities may well end up having things as they wish. Before she took her position with the NIH. Doris Merritt served as dean for research at Indiana University, and, like most government officials with an academic background, she still trusts the scientific community to be its own watch dog. "Universities have had a remarkable record in terms of regulating themselves in the past. The public and the government--for lack...
From Manhattan came Detective Charles Nanton; from Oakland, Calif., Sergeant Alexander Smith. The detective credited with solving the seven "Merritt Parkway Bra" murders in Stamford, Conn., Lieutenant George Mayer, arrived. Detroit police lent the services of Lieutenant Gilbert Hill, who cleared up the "Browning Gang" case that had claimed 15 victims. And out of retirement came Captain Pierce Brooks, who caught the killers of a Los Angeles policeman in the celebrated "Onion Field" case...
Javits denounced the ads as "ghoulish," but surveys showed that his age and illness did influence voters. Said Businessman Marshall Merritt as he left the polls in Manhattan: "Javits is too old and sick for the job. The Senate shouldn't be a club for superannuated public servants." In Washington, Javits vowed to take on D'Amato again in November, as the candidate of New York's small Liberal Party. Said Javits of the coming campaign: "I assure you that it will be vigorous...
...some of them even painted the flowers in Monet's garden at Giverny, with the assiduity of students doing the Roman ruins a century before. They were not trivial or maladroit. Yet charm, rather than inspiration, remained the order of the day. No wonder that Childe Hassam, William Merritt Chase, Edmund Tarbell, John Twacht-man and their colleagues have always seemed to be squeezed uncomfortably between the great Yankee realists like Eakins and Homer in the late 19th century and the robust "Ashcan" painters like Robert Henri in the early 20th...