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AT A GLANCE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY * Charles Hancock, executive officer * Martin Gellert, president Nearly 3,000 members of ASBMB will attend the society's annual meeting May 21-25 at the Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C. Presentations include almost 100 talks and more than 1,400 posters, as well as an exhibition. Meeting Highlights "The Washington Connection," a seri

Observers laud the fact that the agreement lets Heidi Weissmann and her former employers keep their controversial debate alive Despite a recently announced out-of-court settlement in medical researcher Heidi S. Weissmann's seven-year-long sex-discrimination case against her former employers, each side still insists that it would have prevailed had the case gone to trial. While it is debatable whether the $900,000 settlement--notab

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As change in law allows science faculty to keep working after age 70, academia must rethink its personnel policies. The end of mandatory retirement for faculty at United States colleges and universities--a policy change that became effective on January 1 of this year--is placing a new burden on the schools as well as individual faculty members. While the end of the longstanding policy has not brought about--as some administrators

Three of the 13 awards this year are going to astronomers, including the academy's highest honor--the Public Welfare Medal--which is being given to Carl E. Sagan, 59, David Duncan Professor of Astronomy and Space Sciences at Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y. Every year, NAS presents this medal (the only award without an accompanying cash prize) to an individual who has made extraordinary use of science for the public good. Perhaps

Healthy Dialogue Human Rights - Via E-mail Top Banana SSC Yard Sale Learning About Learning New Gynecology Journal A Global Warming Mystery The National Institutes of Health is presenting a free, nine-week series of "easy-to-understand, entertaining, and informative" lectures about the basics of biomedical research for the general public. Sessions--which began March 31 and take place on consecutive Thursday evenings until May 26 at

As is customary at the annual AAAS meeting, a wide variety of current science-and-society topics were addressed in the sessions. Among these were: the dangers posed by the rapid spread of drug resistance in disease-causing bacteria, the role of science fiction in presenting science to the public, and the ethical questions raised by recent research showing that some men may be genetically predisposed to homosexuality. Following is a

With health-care reform proposals threatening financial prospects, firms are shelving projects laying off researchers The biotech industry is marshaling its forces for what many of its executives view as the political fight of its life. Financial analysts and other observers agree with the executives, saying that the industry faces financial threats posed by various mechanisms in President Clinton's health plan designed to influenc

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With health-care reform proposals threatening financial prospects, firms are shelving projects laying off researchers The biotech industry is marshaling its forces for what many of its executives view as the political fight of its life. Financial analysts and other observers agree with the executives, saying that the industry faces financial threats posed by various mechanisms in President Clinton's health plan designed to influenc

Healthy Dialogue Human Rights - Via E-mail Top Banana SSC Yard Sale Learning About Learning New Gynecology Journal A Global Warming Mystery The National Institutes of Health is presenting a free, nine-week series of "easy-to-understand, entertaining, and informative" lectures about the basics of biomedical research for the general public. Sessions--which began March 31 and take place on consecutive Thursday evenings until May 26 at