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...crucial questions for policymakers was whether CFCs would remain in the atmosphere for a long time. Asked today when it was proved that CFCs could hang around for many decades, Du Pont scientists readily acknowledge that the issue was largely put to rest in the '70s. As late as 1982, however, a Du Pont scientist was still arguing in print that CFCs were short-lived...
...consuming pleasures of cars, air conditioners and central heating. Even in the U.S., emissions could start climbing sharply again in the next century. That is why some environmental leaders, while praising last week's announcement, were calling on the President to take it one step further. Michael Oppenheimer, senior scientist with the Environmental Defense Fund, urged the Administration to set the U.S. on a course of action that would keep emissions below 1990 levels well beyond the year 2000. That could be the real test of the President's commitment. "Is he going to keep the downward trend going?" asks...
...sent many an overhyped nonstory to extinction. "Andrea serves as a kind of litmus test," says senior editor Claudia Wallis, who first suggested the time might be ripe for a reappraisal of dinosaurs. "She's constitutionally incapable of exaggeration." Adds another editor, Charles Alexander: "She has a scientist's skepticism...
According to Patrick M. Gillevet, director and chief scientist of the Harvard Genome Laboratory, Gilbert's project was to develop a direct sequencing method, using bacteria as models...
Some critics see the current interest in heredity as part of an ugly political trend. "In socially conservative times," argues political scientist Diane Paul of the University of Massachusetts at Boston, "we tend to say crime and poverty are not our fault and put the blame not on society but on genes...