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Prasanna de Silva Source: © Peter Strain @ Début Art Prasanna (AP) de Silva is professor of organic chemistry at Queen’s University, Belfast, Northern Ireland. His influential work includes the invention of molecular logic gates, and the construction of phosphorescent sensory systems. He was speaking to Bárbara Pinho. I was born in Sri Lanka. I’m still quite confused as to where I belong, but I’ve been lucky to work in Northern Ireland for quite some time now. I’m still very much Sri Lankan, though. We were a very poor family. We didn’t have running water nor electricity. My gran...

LA GRANDE — “My officers are drowning, they’re drowning in these calls. It’s a crisis.” Those were the words of Lt. Jason Hays of the La Grande Police Department as he explained how his officers have increasingly become the vanguard in dealing with behavior and crises brought on by severe mental illness. The small police department has been inundated with calls for service to respond to people experiencing mental illness, sometimes tying up the entire on-duty police force for hours at a time. “The No. 1 thing that is a pressing issue for us and that continues to ...