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...ozone hole. Though world ozone levels have dropped by an estimated 3% to 7% in the past several decades, south polar levels plunge by as much as 50% each September, then rebound. The discovery of the hole was announced in 1985 by a team led by Joseph Farman, a scientist with the British Antarctic Survey. Since then, researchers have flocked south to study the phenomenon...
Strobel admits that his frustration with the maze of federal rules and the often lengthy EPA approval process led him to start the elm test last June. Geneticist Duane Jeffery of Brigham Young University likens Strobel's actions to Oliver North's, contending that the scientist knew the rules and pulled the idealistic stunt "in the name of service to humanity." Strobel is a recognized expert on plant pathogens who once wrote that his career choice "was brought on by a desire as a teenager to understand why the chestnut trees had died in my home state of Ohio...
...search for a new anticholesterol drug began in Japan. Akiro Endo, a scientist with the pharmaceutical firm Sankyo, wondered whether soil molds that kill cholesterol-containing bacteria might have evolved the ability to block cholesterol synthesis. In 1976, after testing 10,000 compounds, Endo found one that inhibited a key enzyme in the cholesterol-manufacturing process. Researchers at Merck soon discovered similar compounds, including lovastatin, but the finds would have remained research oddities without the Nobel-prizewinning work of UTHSCD's Joseph Goldstein and Michael Brown...
...Conversational Desktop is a voice-controlled computer system that acts like an automatic receptionist, personal secretary and travel agent -- screening calls, taking messages, making airline reservations. "Get me two seats to the Bahamas," says Research Scientist Chris Schmandt to his computer. "When do you want to go?" replies the machine...
...articles in this month's Atlantic argued these points. Yale political scientist Paul Kennedy wrote an article suggesting that America's strategy and overseas commitments had overreached her resources. Then followed a piece by foreign affairs expert James Chase, entitled "Ike Was Right," arguing that we should withdraw our troops from West Germany and allow the Europeans to take care of themselves...