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PBS Airdate: February 6, 2007 NARRATOR: 1939: A chemist at a midwestern paint company makes a startling discovery, one that could improve the health of millions of people. The company wants him to stick to making paint, but this man has always gone his own way. He was the grandson of Alabama slaves, yet he went on to become one of America's great scientists. HELEN PRINTY (Julian Laboratories Chemist) : He had to fight to overcome the odds of being a black man in America. JOHN KENLY SMITH (Historian) : The chemical world was a club, and outsiders were not really all that welcome. PETER WALTON ...

Cambridge family grateful for police officer who found missing girls Jennifer Eagan WCVB A mother and father sent a thank you letter to Cambridge police for helping to find their daughter and her friend after they went missing Monday afternoon, according to the Chronicle's news partner, WCVB.  Heidi Tridello Mattern, who is 5 years old, did not realize walking away from Raymond Park in Cambridge, out of the view of her babysitter, would send her parents into a panic. "So me and my friend were playing at the park. Then we disappeared," Heidi said. "I thought of the worst things that would h...

A mother and father in Massachusetts sent a thank you letter to the police officer and his department for helping to find their daughter and her friend after they went missing.Heidi Tridello Mattern, who is 5 years old, did not realize walking away from Raymond Park in Cambridge, out of the view of her babysitter, would send her parents into a panic late Monday afternoon."So me and my friend were playing at the park. Then we disappeared," Heidi said."I thought of the worst things that would happen," the girl's mother, Giada Tridello, Mattern said.Heidi's parents quickly called the Cambri...