Because landfills across the country are filling up with diapers, prompting efforts to ban the products in some states, Proctor and Gamble hopes that Martin will prove that disposable diapers are environmentally benign. But the scientist doesn't feel obligated to suppress any damaging results, he says. "If a corporation wants control over the research it funds, it should hire a service lab."
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In their campaign against the use of animals in research, animal rights activists have been trying to gain access to universities' animal care and use committees. The activists, whose methods range from direct pressure to lawsuits, have been successful in a number of states, including Washington and Florida. But on August 18, animal rightists suffered defeat when a lawsuit against the University of California system was dismissed. An Alameda County Superior Court judge ruled that the 10 animal c
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