Lighthouse resident tenants Chicago Harbor Lighthouse
Bemis rents the nine story structure from the U S Coast Guard since 1980 after lobbying began in 1978 to keep resident guards. He notes humidity and peeling paint while the Coast Guard says his living there reduced vandalism and deterioration.
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Bemis
Coast Guard
Columbia researchers win patent on gene introduction method
Columbia University researchers led by Dr. Richard Axel receive a patent for a new method to insert virtually any gene into animal cells. The process could enable production of complex products and be a step toward gene replacement therapies. Non exclusive licenses are offered to industry, naming Saul Silverstein and Michael Wigler as co inventors.
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Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
Columbia
Robert Goldberger
Columbia University
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Richard Axel
Axel
Saul Silverstein
Michael Wigler
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
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Agent Orange sprayed along U S Canada border 1972 78
NBC News reports that Agent Orange was used by the International Boundary Commission from 1972 to 1978 to spray 32 miles of the New Hampshire and Maine border with Canada. While no direct exposure is indicated, residues may have entered water supplies.
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Vietnam
U.S
United States
NBC News
New Hampshire
Maine
Canada
International Boundary Commission
NBC
Maureen Hinckle
National Audubon Society
Murray McKay
Boundary Commission
EPA
Male contraceptive salve readied for human tests
Johns Hopkins scientist says a skin rub salve that raises sex hormones to suppress sperm production could become a male birth control method. He has applied to the FDA for approval to begin human trials after 12 years of animal research.
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Johns Hopkins University
Larry L. Ewing
Federal Drug Administration
FDA
Ewing
Society For the Study of Reproduction
Case Western Reserve University
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