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...DIED. MAURICE HILLEMAN, 85, low-profile microbiologist credited with developing some 40 vaccines and saving more lives than any other 20th century scientist; in Philadelphia. After being persuaded to go to college by his brother, who thought he could do better than his job as a clerk at a local J.C. Penney, the Montana farm boy eventually took what turned out to be a three-decade-long job at pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co. He developed 8 of the 14 vaccines currently recommended for children, including shots for measles, mumps, hepatitis A and B, chickenpox and meningitis...
...Scientists so far have not located any new invaders, and a panel of experts suggested that the killer bees' aggressively unfriendly personalities will be blunted as they mate with more docile domestic bees. There is no doubt that the Africanized bees, known as Apis mellifera scutellata, have exceptionally nasty tempers. While they are slightly smaller and no more venomous than their European cousins, they go out of their way to attack, and they do so in overwhelming swarms. Ever since a batch of imported Africanized bees was accidentally released near São Paulo by a Brazilian scientist in 1957, they...
Safely in space, the crew performed a round-the-clock schedule of experiments, including observation of flares on the sun's surface and study of the behavior of liquid helium at zero gravity. Crowed Mission Scientist Eugene Urban: "We have been able to assure ourselves that the science return . . . will be very high." BOSTON Black Chief for an Ailing System...
...either. Then I remembered my grandfather, standing at a lake with me when I was 11 or so. I was dropping stones in the water, and my grandfather told me that each time I did it, I raised the level of the water. He said if a scientist were there, he could prove to me that each stone raised the level of the water. All you can see is the ripple, he said, but the ripple tells you that you did something...
Died. Maurice Hilleman, 85, low-profile microbiologist credited with developing some 40 vaccines--a record--and saving more lives than any other 20th century scientist; in Philadelphia. Persuaded to go to college by his brother, who thought he should aim higher than his job as a clerk at a local J.C. Penney, the Montana farm boy eventually took what turned out to be a three-decade-long job at pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co. he developed eight of the 14 vaccines currently recommended to protect children against measles, mumps, hepatitis A and B, and chickenpox...