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Part of being a responsible researcher is being a responsible publicist. On the basis of one or two research articles published last spring, Reinherz's team tentatively announced major implications for the treatment of cancer and AIDS. Is it a mere coincidence that a scientist who published a press release and reached for the newspapers at the time of a discovery is the same scientist who ends up having to retract his findings? Rather than a coincidence, the case may be a symptom of the changing environment of scientific research...
...surprisingly, Levi the scientist is fascinated by work and variety, a curiosity he shares with Libertino Faussone, the main storyteller of The Monkey's Wrench. "The world is beautiful because it's all different," says ! Faussone, an itinerant rigger who has worked on construction jobs all over the world. He is a fiction, says Levi, but authentic, a composite of workmen the author has known. The rigger's tales too have the pitch of stretched truths. On an eight-story tower, a mystery man collects dust that he claims comes from the stars. Faussone tells...
...Soviet press lately: that the illness is the result of U.S. germ-warfare experiments gone wild. AIDS experts scoff at the farfetched notion, and Washington has accused the Soviets of waging a "disinformation campaign." U.S. Ambassador to Moscow Arthur Hartman publicly protested a Pravda cartoon depicting a U.S. scientist and an officer exchanging a vial of AIDS viruses...
...doubt that the Reaganauts, except perhaps for the President himself, have any great gift for the art of political compromise. Indeed, just about the only aide left in Reagan's inner circle who is adept at handling Congress, Mitch Daniels, may leave the Administration soon. Norman Ornstein, a political scientist at the American Enterprise Institute, says that with the exception of Daniels, "I don't think there's a single individual in the White House with a good understanding of how to work with Capitol Hill...
Although PCB's are known to be highly toxic, they have not been proven to cause cancer, said Enviromental Protection Agency scientist Anthony Palermo...