No fear [[electronic resource] ] : a whistleblower's triumph over corruption and retaliation at the EPA / / Marsha Coleman-Adebayo ; foreword by Noam Chomsky ; afterword by Walter Fauntroy

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910453107903321
• Autore: Coleman-Adebayo Marsha
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Chicago, Ill., : Lawrence Hill Books, 2011
• ISBN: 1-56976-937-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (498 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): ChomskyNoam; FauntroyWalter
• Disciplina: 363.7092; B
• Soggetti: Political scientists - United States; African American political scientists; Whistle blowing - United States; Vanadium industry - Corrupt practices - South Africa; Social responsibility of business; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Cover; Back Cover; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Preface and Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Welcome to EPA: Consider Yourself an Honorary White Man; 2 The Fourth UN World Conference on Women, Beijing: "Call Me Bella"; 3 Ultimatum to Public Service; 4 The Gore-Mbeki Commission: The Sound That Freedom Makes; 5 Alexandra: The Sacrifice Zone; 6 Who Are You Calling a Necklacer?; "Sleep"; 7 Why Waste MIT on People Like That?; 8 My Name Is Jacob Ngakane; 9 Back to MIT; 10 Breathing College Air; 11 Barnard College: The Path Sisters Take; 12 MIT: The Vortex of Minds and Hearts; 13 Ethiopia: The Good Mother14 Retaliation at EPA; 15 Something Deeper Than Words; "Something Deeper Than Words"; 16 President of the United States: The Playbook; 17 Last Obstacle to the End Run; "Love Will Bring Me Forth"; 18 Yes, Clarice; "The Sacrifice Zone"; 19 The 1998 Trip to South Africa: My Tongue Is Green; "The Registry of Man"; 20 Death Threats and Missed Opportunities; 21 Coleman-Adebayo v. Carol ; M. Browner; 22 Betrayal Is Best Served Cold; 23 Discrimination or Disappointment?; "Waiting"; 24 The Verdict; 25 Can You Hear Me?; 26 Behind Closed Doors: The Browner-NAACP Meeting; 27 Congressional Hearings: Intolerance at EPA"Today I'm Gray"; 28 A Call to History; 29 Journey to No Fear; 30 Al Sharpton: The X Factor; 31 Vanadium; 32 Breathing African Air; Postscript: Giants and Grasshoppers; "Like a Landscape from the Book of Time"; Afterword; Endnotes; Bibliography; Appendix: Legislative Stages to the No FEAR Public Law; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Retracing the steps of the first civil rights and whistleblower act of the 21st century, this chronicle follows young, black, MIT-educated social scientist Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, shortly after she landed her dream job at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The account illustrates how the author attempted to convince the government to investigate allegations surrounding a multinational corporation, suspecting that they were responsible for the deaths of hundreds of South Africans who were mining vanadium?a vital strategic minera

Growth control in cell cultures [[electronic resource] ] : a Ciba Foundation Symposium / / edited by G.E.W. Wolstenholme and Julie Knight

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910830270603321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London, : Churchill Livingstone, 1971
• ISBN: 1-280-76847-9; 9786613679246; 0-470-71981-8; 0-470-71746-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (298 p.)
• Collana: Ciba Foundation symposium
• Altri autori (Persone): WolstenholmeG. E. W (Gordon Ethelbert Ward); KnightJulie
• Disciplina: 591.8/7; 591.87
• Soggetti: Tissue culture; Virology - Cultures and culture media
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: GROWTH CONTROL IN CELL CULTURES; Contents; Chairman's introduction; Studies of serum factors required by 3T3 and SV3T3 cells; Discussion; Conditions affecting the response of cultured cells to serum; Discussion; Factors controlling the multiplication of untransformed and transformed BHK2l cells under various environmental conditions; Discussion; The significance of surface structure changes for growth control under crowded conditions; Discussion; Regulation of cell multiplication in tissue culture; Discussion; Molecular exchange and growth control in tissue culture; Discussion; Attempts to isolate SV40 transformation factorDiscussion; Growth regulation in cultures of chick embryo fibroblasts; Discussion; SV40 transformation and cellular growth control; Discussion; Growth control between dissimilar cells in culture; Discussion; Specific growth regulation in early subcultures of human diploid fibroblasts; Discussion; Transport and phospholipid changes related to control of growth in 3T3 cells; Discussion; Aspects of membrane structure and function in Escherichia coli; Discussion; General Discussion; Chairman's closing remarks; Appendix: growth properties of normal and trans- formed cellsAuthor index; Subject index