Word: researchers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Instead of pretending that Radcliffe is representative of women students here, administrators should be willing to spin off their institution into the only niche it is qualified for: as a preeminent women's research center...
...lectures and discussions on the dangers of drinking. A voluntary alcohol- awareness organization called Bacchus, begun at the University of Florida in 1976, has spread to some 280 campuses across the nation. "There has generally been much greater attention on what damage alcohol can do," says Robert % Saltz, senior research scientist at the Prevention Research Center in Berkeley. But he adds, "There is still very little consensus on what to do about...
...burn a mixture of liquid hydrogen and natural gas. The three- engine jet, which lifted off near Moscow and flew for 21 minutes, was the first aircraft to use the fuel in takeoff. Says Senator Spark Matsunaga, a Hawaii Democrat and a leading advocate of a U.S. hydrogen-fuel research program: "It appears that the Soviets have stolen a technological march...
...today's workplaces are aswirl with noxious pollutants. An estimated one-fifth to one-third of U.S. buildings are considered "sick": they contain areas in which more than 20% of employees suffer acute discomfort that is often eased when they leave the premises. "SBS sneaks up on you," says Research Scientist Michael McCawley of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Predicts McCawley: "Office air quality will be one of the big problems of the 1990s...
Based on two decades of research by more than 50 scientists, Koop's 1 1/2- in.-thick treatise, titled The Health Consequences of Smoking: Nicotine Addiction, earned unanimous accolades from the medical community as well as praise from politicians. "The Surgeon General's report is a clear challenge to all who care about the health of smokers," says Ovide Pomerleau, professor of behavioral medicine at the University of Michigan. "This socially approved habit is going to go the way of the spittoon." Among Koop's recommendations: warning labels about addiction on packages of tobacco products, a ban on cigarette vending...