Scientist retires from NY research lab
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James Watson, famous for DNA research but widely condemned for recent comments about intelligence levels among blacks, retired Thursday from his post at a prestigious research institution.
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Ciba Specialty Chemicals Holdings said that its chief financial officer, Michael Jacobi, would leave and that it had named an executive from Dow Chemical as his successor. Mr. Jacobi, who is 53, plans to step down in March to Âpursue a new career path,Â the company said. ÂI have been doing this for 10 years, and I think itÂs time for a change,Â Mr. Jacobi said. Ciba said Mr. Jacobi would be succeeded by Juerg Fedier, 51, a executive of DowÂs European operations.
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U.S. Rep. Sherwood Boehlert, who is retiring after 24 years in Congress, doesn't plan to settle down in his central New York district. He's selling his home near Utica and taking a part-time job at a think tank in Washington, D.C.
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Nikolaj HÃ¼bbe will retire from the New York City Ballet to become artistic director of the Royal Danish Ballet, a position he applied for nearly 10 years ago.
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Internet visionary Vint Cerf retires from Net oversight after nearly a decade of setting precedents and policy.
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Internet visionary Vint Cerf will retire after years of guiding Internet oversight policies.
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A Nobel scientist who claimed Africans were less intelligent than Europeans quits a US research institution.
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Media Lab Europe, a high-tech research center founded by the Irish government and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, announced Friday that it is closing because it's run out of money.
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The former SDLP Lord Mayor of Belfast announces that he will be retiring from Northern Ireland politics.
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Dr. James W. Holsinger Jr. told a Senate panel today that he would resign before putting politics over science.
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A New York scientist's seven-year effort to win a patent on a laboratory-conceived creature that is part human and part animal ended in failure Friday, closing a historic and somewhat ghoulish chapter in American intellectual-property law.
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A US laboratory set up to study ESP is to close, ending a strained 30-year relationship with the scientific world.
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All great careers come to an end and the deep-sea manned submersible Alvin goes into retirement after 40 years of remarkable work in the world's oceans.
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Tonight&#39;s broadcast is his last in the chair. Making good on an exit plan announced in May 2002, he is stepping away from daily journalism to pursue his varied other interests.
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By David Goldstein, McClatchy Washington Bureau  Sep. 16--WASHINGTON -- The Environmental Protection Agency intends to  close labs, cut its cadre of upper-level scientists and reduce regulatory  oversight, according to an internal agency document.
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Media Lab Europe, a high-tech research center founded by the Irish government and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, announced Friday it is closing because it's run out of money.
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A Nobel Prize-winning scientist who reportedly claimed black people are less intelligent than whites, has pulled out of a book tour and gone home, his publicist said Friday.