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Despite a thorough search, there was no sign of a third body or of suspects. The FBI noted, however, that only someone from the area would probably be familiar with the location where the car was found, off the narrow logging roads and at a spot deep in the woods, where locals often dump trash. "We want resolution, and this brings us a step forward--this has been a fight," said Francis Carrington, Sund's father and head of Carrington Co., a Eureka-based real estate firm. The family had offered more than $300,000 reward for anyone with information...
...conditions--some slippery ratio of ingredients and heat and pressure--that would yield a more workable, shellac-like substance. Ideally it would be something that would dissolve in solvents to make insulating varnishes and yet be as moldable as rubber. Starting around 1904, Baekeland and an assistant began their search. Three years later, after filling laboratory books with page after page of failed experiments, Baekeland finally developed a material that he dubbed in his notebooks "Bakelite." The key turned out to be his "bakelizer," a heavy iron vessel that was part pressure cooker and part basement boiler. With...
...molds that could kill bacteria. The mission was inspired by the earlier work of Gerhard Domagk, who in 1935 showed that the injection of a simple compound, Prontosil, cured systemic streptococcal infections. This breakthrough demonstrated that invading bacteria could be killed with a drug and led to a fevered search in the late 1930s for similar compounds. Fleming's Penicillium notatum became the convenient starting point for Florey's team at Oxford...
TIME senior writer Michael D. Lemonick is the author of Other Worlds: The Search for Life in the Universe
Louis Leakey's enthusiasm for Africa and the search for earliest man were infectious. Speaking before a packed lecture hall in his staccato-like voice, punctuated by rapid inhales, he cast a spell, making each listener believe he was speaking only to him or her. His following in America was cultlike. Consumed with devotion and swept up in his charisma, many developed a desire to follow somehow in his footsteps, to please...