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About Me: Retired former consultant to the ophthalmic and medical laser industries.

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  • Comment on: Ghosts of Route 1 - The Boston Globe

    Posted 07/24/2011 09:24:00 EDT

    I may not be correct, but wasn't Chickland and Carl's Duck Farm on Rt 1?

  • Comment on: 'Alex Beam investigates another pencil case'

    Posted 10/22/2010 01:05:26 EDT

    For more on the ADL Plastic Pencil and the Erasable Ink Pen, as well as other products and inventions that came out of the ADL Product Technology Laboratories, now known as "the skunkworks", take a lo more »

  • Comment on: 'Pencil pushers excited for new Blackwing'

    Posted 10/01/2010 08:08:45 EDT

    For all of you pencil aficionados, there is another, local angle to this story -- the world's first all plastic pencil was invented in Cambridge, MA back in the early 1970s. A team of us working at Ar more »

  • Comment on: 'High honor for Maine scientist'

    Posted 09/21/2010 05:38:01 EDT

    The Story Behind the Invention of Lucentis and Avastin With Dr. Napoleone Ferrara of Genentech winning the Lasker Award for his invention of anti-VEGF drugs (a possible precursor to a Nobel?), see the more »

  • Forum Post: Globe's New Feature

    Posted 07/06/2010 09:16:41 EDT

    Joe, As it turns out, I've been in touch with Bella Traveglini about this and she pointed out to me that there is an RSS feed for the Peabody Local home page in the url line of my browser. I just adde more »

  • Forum Post: Globe's New Feature

    Posted 07/05/2010 05:13:02 EDT

    I agree with the poster above -- I like this new feature. Now, please add an RSS feed for the main page -- at least for the news section, so I can catch in with my "reader". (I noticed an RSS feed for more »