Besides Dr. Nigrelli the party included Dr. Martin F. Stempien, Jr., of the Aquarium staff, Dr. Gustavo Pulitzer, a marine ecologist and poriferologist of Portofino, Italy

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Maternal smoking during pregnancy is one of the modifiable environmental factors that adversely affects the unborn child. … Many studies support the view that maternal smoking retards fetal growth: infants of smokers tend to be 150–325 g lighter at birth than those born to non-smokers.

But in the words of a recent National Research Council report, women have entered academia in increasing numbers at a time when opportunities for obtaining more permanent and prestigious faculty positions [have] begun to decline […] . In some disciplines, the casualization of the academic workforce has reached crisis proportions […] .