Word: alabamas
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...grew up in Alabama and northern Florida as akid in small towns mostly, and had close contactwith nature. One of the defining experiences of mylife, though, was to live in Washington, D.C., in1939-1940 when I was just about nine or ten yearsold. I had, believe it or not, quite an experiencefor a kid. I was within walking distance of thenational zoo and a short bus ride from the UnitedStates national museum near Rock Creek park. Atthat time it was safe, so I had the combination inthis sensitive period of my boyhood of having thewonders of the zoo to visit...
...didn't know how far this would go. I thoughtthe greatest thing in the world would be to be amuseum curator, to be one of those men that I sawin Alabama riding around in green trucks with theU.S. department of agriculture collecting insects.Every kid has a bug period, I just didn't grow outof mine--it got imprinted...
...roamed the red eroded gullies and toxicstreams of Alabama (which were in abundance inthose days), looking for patches of naturalenvironment, (which weren't easy to find inthose days), I said to myself that it's betterelsewhere in the world and when I am able to maketrips to the serious tropics, like Cuba, theAmazon and New Guinea, that's when I'll find thewildernesses and the great environments.B-9Crimson File PhotoE.O. Wilson, with baboon...
...Alabama, Wilson encountered an academicenvironment well-suited to his interests. Inaddition to studying under an influentialprofessor who served as his early mentor, Wilson"had the good fortune of becoming buddies with asmall gang of other budding entomologists." Hereceived a good education at Alabama--"evenwithout Nobel Laureates teaching me. We didn'thave a giant accelerator or a great laboratory ofbiochemistry, but we had the Alabama naturalenvironment and that was as good as anylaboratory...
...DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA IS ADDING SOMETHING new to the arguments over the death penalty: the contention that a vote for capital punishment is a vote against home rule. Washington's homicide rate is down slightly this year. But one of those slain was Tom Barnes, an aide to Alabama Democratic Senator Richard Shelby. The enraged Shelby pushed through Congress a law ordering the District to hold a referendum on reinstating the death penalty, and election officials last week put a sweeping proposal on the Nov. 3 ballot. Nearly all the city's leading politicians appealed to residents to vote...