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From Limelight to Hotspot George, Eat Your Broccoli! These Jobs are the Pits No Loose Lips Here Merging Cultures Lifting Off Early Stanford University president Donald Kennedy, who last fall took a lot of heat from Congress for the school's management of indirect costs associated with federally sponsored research grants, is headed for the very venue from whence the heat arose. After stepping down as president this coming August, Kennedy--in January 1993--will become the first faculty

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Stanford University president Donald Kennedy, who last fall took a lot of heat from Congress for the school's management of indirect costs associated with federally sponsored research grants, is headed for the very venue from whence the heat arose. After stepping down as president this coming August, Kennedy--in January 1993--will become the first faculty member in residence at Stanford's new environmental internship and tutorial program at its satellite campus in Washington, D.C. David Danelski, who directs the Washington campus, says that this transitional position for Kennedy, who headed the Food and Drug Administration under President Carter, will allow him to get back into the Washington loop.

Noted broccoli hater George Bush is missing out on an important cancer-fighting element by eliminating this vegetable from his diet. The element is (-)-1-isothiocyanato-(4R)-(methylsulfinyl)butane, known as sulforaphane, according to pharmacologists at Johns Hopkins University, who reported their results in the ...

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