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Dr. Jürgen F. Strube, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of BASF Aktiengesellschaft, to be Awarded the 2005 International Palladium Medal by the Société de Chimie IndustrielleAmerican Section
New York, NY (PRWEB) January 8, 2005 The award was established in 1958 and the first Palladium Medal was presented to Ernest-John Solvay of Belgium. Twenty-one subsequent awards have been made to American, French, British, and German recipients. The recipients were: Werner C. Brown (Hercules), Vincent A. Calarco (Crompton), Harry Corless (ICI), Earnest W. Deavenport, Jr. (Eastman Chemical Company), Jean-Rene Fourtou (Rhône-Poulenc), Thomas G. Gibian (Henkel), Thomas L. Gossage (Hercules), J. Peter Grace (W.R. Grace), Edward R. Kane (DuPont), William W. Keeler (Phillips Petroleum), Robert D. Kennedy (Union Carbide), Gerald D. Laubach (Pfizer), Paul F. Oreffice (Dow Chemical), Frank Popoff (Dow Chemical), Monroe J. Rathbone (Standard Oil), William S.…
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Kids-only section on airplanes?
A fussy baby makes everyone anxious on a plane. Passengers are angered and sometimes even sent into a rage by the sounds of a crying child. The actual parents are uneasy because they know the noise is annoying, and then there are the flight attendants who are serving drinks to a plane load of edgy people. What’s the solution? A kids-only section on the airplane, according to a recent survey conducted by Skyscanner, a fare-comparison website. Nearly 60 percent of more than 2,000 travelers polled say they want airlines to create such a section, according to USA Today. Nearly 20 percent went as far to say they’d prefer child-free flights.…