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...fictional creations mingle with some of the most prominent names in Harvard history. John Winthrop comes off as a humorous mad-scientist type as he encourages the use of newfangled microscopes, Elizabeth Cary Agassiz campaigns for a women’s college and Joe Kennedy looks longingly up at the Porcellian Club he can never join because of his Catholic background...
When asked for his thoughts, Professor of Physics and nuclear scientist John Doyle said that “anyone who needs to work with such materials would benefit from a discussion with [the Department of Environmental Health and Safety].” Would it ever be okay to have enriched plutonium in, say, Canaday? His reply was an unsurprising, yet unwavering...
...since Melton’s batch doesn’t meet the criteria for federal approval, any scientist wanting to use these stem cell lines will need private funding, which is hard to come...
...nerd with chemistry-lab expertise and a grudge against the government. But when traces of the biological toxin ricin showed up in Senator Bill Frist's mail room last week, the FBI and other agencies declared there was no evidence pointing to either a foreign culprit or a mad scientist. One possibility under examination: a good ole boy who knows his way around 18-wheelers, weigh stations and CB radios...
Usually, when scientist Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan appeared on Pakistan's state TV, it was to receive another gold medal for building the country's nuclear bomb. But last week Khan, a hero to Pakistanis and many others in the Islamic world, came on the air, ashen and visibly shaken, to confess that he had sold Pakistan's nuclear secrets to Libya, Iran and North Korea. He begged for President Pervez Musharraf's pardon--and, to the chagrin of many Western intelligence agencies that regard Khan as the world's most dangerous nuclear proliferator, it was granted the next...