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Aside from these concerns, Harvard's major concern is financial. John I. Clemons, safety engineer in the medical area office of environmental health and safety, estimates that about 30 to 40 per cent of Harvard's medical research produces some kind of hazardous waste. "At the moment there is no problem," Clemons says. But he quickly adds that the EPA regulations may generate substantial problems, including cutbacks in research projects. The proposed regulations would apply to infectious wastes--those generated by hospitals. A study by Clemons' office indicates that, if the EPA regulations are implemented as proposed, a Harvard-affiliated...
...served as director of social sciences research at Urban Systems Research and Engineering Corporation in Cambridge from 1971 until 1975, when he was elected to the board of directors...
...Research done at Minnesota's Mayo Clinic suggests that high dosages of vitamin C do not, as previously suspected, aid advanced cancer patients, the New England Journal of Medicine reported this week...
...findings of the Mayo study conflict with the conclusions of previous research at the Vale of Leven Hospital in Loch Lomondside, Scotland. That study showed that the vitamin helped in at least ten percent of the patients studied, as well as undefined "subjective benefit" in most patients...
Betty Satterwhite Sutter, head reporter-researcher in TIME'S Nation section, was one of the few staff members with her own copy of the opus-kept, of course, in a locked drawer in a locked room. With assistance from 14 TIME research librarians, she attempted to verify every fact and figure included in the excerpts. Inevitably, some niggling little problems arose. Should the traditional Chinese phrase for "Bottoms up," for example, be transliterated as gam-bei, the dialect version, as it appears in the book? Or should it be ganbei, the Mandarin version? We settled on the latter...