71.   To think of a young American scientist at the mercy of Russians slapping Soviet-issue duct tape against the infinite vacuum of space was just too much.

72.   What the Soviet agents had not obtained, apparently, was information on the safeguards American scientists had developed to protect U.S. workers against inhaling and handling plutonium.

73.   Philip Fearnside, an American scientist, notes that the government opposes a proposal to allow polluting countries to pay nations that preserve their forests.

74.   A Taiwanese-born American scientist, Wen Ho Lee, was fired last week from a U.S. weapons lab amid suspicions that he shared secrets with Beijing.

75.   According to the latest information, American scientists want to try an AIDS vaccine on humans but the plan is still receiving mixed reactions.

76.   American scientists have grown a human ear and grafted it on to the back of a mouse.

77.   American atmospheric scientist Robert Watson is seeking re-election as head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change when it holds its election later this month in Geneva.

78.   American scientists have taken an exciting step forward by discovering how to make cells live longer by altering their genetic make-up.

79.   American scientists have tried to steer away from live medical agents for fear many people would reject the doses, some fatally.

80.   American scientists on Tuesday protested a German plan to build a research reactor fueled with bomb-grade uranium, which critics say undermines efforts to stop nuclear proliferation.