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...SWEDISH SCIENTISTS A team from Uppsala University has reported the existence of bacteria that can manufacture minute quantities of silver. The discovery may lead to the production of new kinds of metal films and coatings...
Investigators from the Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women's Hospital, the Universities of Toronto, Minnesota, Loma Linda, Limburg (the Netherlands), Uppsala (Sweden), the State University of New York at Buffalo and the TNO Nutrition Institute in the Netherlands collaborated on this study...
DIED. VIVECA LINDFORS, 74, actress; of complications from rheumatoid arthritis; in Uppsala, Sweden. Lindfors' neo-Garbo good looks graced a series of forgettable films before her 1954 breakthrough with a psychologically nuanced performance in the title role of Anastasia on Broadway. Lindfors' subsequent career continued to veer between high art onstage (Shakespeare, Brecht) and low on film (1973's The Way We Were and last year's Stargate...
...have AIDS. In fact, the opposite may be true. "Both boys and girls are more vulnerable to infection because they are prone to lesions and injuries in sexual intercourse," says Dr. Pers-Anders Mardh, director of the World Health Organization's Collaborating Center for Sexually Transmitted Diseases in Uppsala, Sweden. "Imagine intercourse occurring millions of times under these conditions." The AIDS epidemic alone is enough to justify a crackdown on child prostitution, says Mardh. "There is too little attention being paid to the health of these children," he says. "Yet they are playing Russian roulette with their lives...
...troubles began in November, when Bjorn Gillberg, a former professor at Sweden's Ultuna Agricultural University, read a FORTUNE profile of Fermenta. The story noted that el Sayed had earned a Ph.D. in microbiology at Uppsala University in 1973. In reality, el Sayed had been at Ultuna that year, working in Gillberg's lab. Gillberg investigated the discrepancy and discovered that el Sayed had also falsely claimed to have a Ph.D. in microbiology from the University of California, Davis...