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Experiment eleven : deceit and betrayal in the discovery of the cure for tuberculosis
\"In 1943, Albert Schatz, a young American PhD student, worked on a wartime project in microbiology professor Selman Waksman's lab, searching for an antibiotic to fight infections on the front lines and at home. On his eleventh experiment on a common bacterium found in farmyard soil, Schatz discovered streptomycin, the first effective cure for tuberculosis, at that time the world's leading killer disease. As director of Schatz's reserach, Waksman took credit for the discovery, belittled Schatz's work, and secretly enriched himself with royalties from the streptomycin patent filed by Merck. In [1950, and in] an unprecedented lawsuit, young Schatz sued Waksman, was awarded the title of 'co-discoverer', and a share of the royalties. But two years later, Professor Waksman alone was awarded the Nobel Prize. Schatz disappeared into academic obscurity. ...\"--Book jacket.
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SUNDAY FOCUS I/ Big Tobacco Can't Kick the Habit of Arrogance
BIG TOBACCO HAS become like an imperial army in retreat, making one tactical blunder after another because its generals simply can't accept the reality of diminished power. In Congress last week, tobacco executives and lobbyists may have made their worst mistake so far. Instead of holding fire on Sen. John McCain's latest version of the settlement that could save them from bankruptcy, they threatened to fight on. J. Philip Carlton, the dapper scion of a North Carolina tobacco family and industry front man, complained that the proposed price rise in McCain's bill - $1.10 a pack over five years on today's roughly $2.00 - would create a black market. And the clause allowing victims of smoking diseases to bring class action lawsuits would produce penalties the companies couldn't possibly pay, he said. \"We don't need the tobacco companies at the table,\" said Sen. Judd Gregg of New Hampshire, one of the wave of Republicans deserting the industry. Gregg had just sponsored a 79 to 19 Senate vote on a resolution denying immunity to tobacco companies in smoking-related lawsuits. While the vote was not binding, it was surely a marker of how far the tobacco lobby had sunk. Even Newt Gingrich, who took $30,500 of tobacco money in the 1996 election, came out against liability protection.
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Psychosocial Practice Within a Residential Setting
The Cassell Hospital Monograph Series, No. 1. The first in a series of monographs, intended to present accessible teaching material concerned with the practice of residential care.
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