Word: scientists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this Georgia town, food scientist Michael Doyle looked inside a cow's stomach for a way to kill E. coli 0157:H7, the mutant microbe blamed in the recall of 25 million pounds of ground beef over the summer...
Litvak worked in collaboration with Joanna E. Siegel, former assistant professor of maternal and child health at SPH; Stephen G. Pauker, vice chair of the department of medicine at Tufts University; Marc J. Lallemant, former visiting scientist in the department of cancer biology at SPH; Harvey V. Feinberg '67, provost of Harvard University and Milton C. Weinstein, Kaiser professor of health policy and management and biostatistics...
...enemy. Yet Jiang has to watch his back: hard-line Premier Li Peng still has influence and supporters whom Jiang has to placate. But he has clearly proved himself a capable wheeler-dealer with one great advantage in China. "He is an opportunist," says a Chinese political scientist in Beijing, "because he is bereft of any ideological belief and ready to embrace any ideas that suit him." That talent will undoubtedly come in handy as the very new face of communist China visits the headquarters of the capitalist West for the first time...
...less reproductive urgency, even undergo body-wide traumas like chemotherapy--all the while knowing that a few eggs, banked years earlier, were preserving their ability to bear children. The very idea of menopause as a procreative cul de sac could be made obsolete. "This," says Dr. Joe Massey, a scientist who helped develop the technique, "stretches the reproductive field as far as you can envision...
...stayed to become a topiary gardener. Ray Mendez, a photographer, had a high school fascination with insects; 20 years later, he learned that there were mammals--naked mole rats--living in colonies like insects, took photos of them, brought them home. Rodney Brooks is an M.I.T. scientist who loved to build things; now he makes robots whose movements are not programmed but follow the machine's "nature...