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THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE
August 1997
Table of Contents
VOLUME 89, NUMBER 6 AUGUST 1997
GLOBAL WARNING
Nobel
laureate F. Sherry Rowland, SM'51, PhD'52, discovered that man-made gases were
destroying the Earth's ozone layer. (See "Clean-up Hitter," below).
Photograph by Dan Dry.
Sherry Rowland's work in atmospheric chemistry made CFCs a household word--and halting their production a global issue.
BILL BURTON
Three members of the College Class
of 1997 hew to a Chicago theme: the joy of life enriched by learning.
Contemporary composer Shulamit
Ran
wrote her first opera by drawing on ancient themes.
JENNIFER VANASCO
Ten years after Allan Bloom's best-seller,
a gathering of scholarsreopened the debate on The Closing of the American Mind.
JOHN EASTON
DEPARTMENTS
- Letters
Mail from our readers: Law in the public interest; a small College and those who love it; wilderness values. - Chicago
journal
The U of C reaches out to the red planet. Also: a bumper crop of first-rate teachers. - Investigations
Historian Rashid Khalidi explains how Palestinian identity emerged. - Class
news, including Alumni Awards
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