Two mail bomb incidents last month have put scientists on pins and needles at many schools across the country. Charles Epstein, a professor of pediatrics at the University of California at San Francisco, and David Gelernter, the director of Yale's undergraduate computer science program, were seriously injured in bomb blasts. At some schools, such as the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, officials have sent fliers to each science department urging them to be suspicious of unsolicited packages. According to George Paladino, vice chairman of Penn's chemistry department, his department alone receives between 500 and 1,000 pieces of mail a day. here in the City of Brotherly Love, on June 28, 200 workers in a research facility at Thomas Jefferson University were evacuated after a 15-gallon drum was sent to a lab without a label or return address. The package was later discovered to contain a harmless specimen that had ...
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Correspondence Precautions Science Imitates Science Fiction.. ...But Science Fiction Isn't Science A High-Minded Undertaking E-Male Ah, But What A Way To Go Two mail bomb incidents last month have put scientists on pins and needles at many schools across the country. Charles Epstein, a professor of pediatrics at the University of California at San Francisco, and David Gelernter, the director of Yale's undergraduate computer science program, were seriously injured in bomb blasts. At som
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