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What he was saying is this: "So differing density levels within the protein itself can affect the uniformity of the freezing process?" A Genentech scientist nodded agreement. California Senator Barbara Boxer and Representative Tom Lantos smiled gamely. And Gore asked question after question: "Is this a process you patented? What software program do you use? Do you get stock options?" Soon he joined a roomful of scientists to deliver an ode to the job-creation benefits of the federal research-and-development tax credit...
Colleagues at HMS and Brigham and Women's remembered Holman as a highly regarded scientist who endeared himself to his peers at both institutions. Mellins said his friend was "a person of great character [and] a man of enormous integrity...
...have been afraid to criticize the pesticide DDT, which was considered safe until it was proved to cause cancer and then banned in the U.S. "Going back to Upton Sinclair and The Jungle, a free and open discourse about food safety has been critical," says Lawrie Mott, a senior scientist with the Natural Resources Defense Council and one of the authors of the Alar report. "With each of the major debates, we have seen reforms emerge...
...other moments of perplexity, Clinton recently summoned a group of academics, historians, writers and philosophers to the White House for what has come to be known as a "thinkers dinner." Even for Clinton, the Renaissance Weekend veteran, this was an eclectic gathering. It included 87-year-old political scientist Samuel Beer, who on his first visit to the White House shook hands with a newly inaugurated Warren Harding and years later wrote speeches for F.D.R.; lapsed conservative Michael Lind, whose literary credits include an epic poem on the siege at the Alamo; Dan Yergin, an energy expert who has lately...
...Bunting-Smith] was a scientist and pointed out to people in an effective way that practices at the University did not make rational sense, such as getting a Radcliffe degree even though [women] were getting the same education as men at Harvard," Bunting said...