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"I think that's a real problem," says one Harvard biology professor, who spoke only no condition of anonymity. "In some sense, it's the professor's responsibility to check. But how do you do it, unless you're going to repeat every experiment in the lab?"
"The way you feel secure is that you have people working on complimentary projects so they're checking on each other," says Raymond L. Erikson. American Cancer Society professor of cellular and developmental biology. "If each experiment builds on others, there's a built-in check mechanism."
But trust and hierarchy do not satisfy some. Four professors interviewed by The Crimson said they believed that every professor should have personally supervise and check every experiment. Each, however, admitted that they themselves could not always live up to that standard.
Thalidomide has long been synonymous with tragedy. In the early 1960s, thousands of European women who took the sedative during pregnancy gave birth to children with no arms or legs, and only the vigilance of the Food and Drug Administration prevented a similar disaster in the U.S. But the old...
If Clinton and his soldiers have learned anything, it is that change comes in droplets, squeezed out like lifeblood. Reno came late to Washington, a third-choice candidate without a long-standing friendship with the President or his wife, without national stature, but with natural allies. She came alone, moved...