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Fox, 43, is a psychologist and ethologist, and a leader in the growing pack of natural scientists who have lately given wolves a good name. He has been raising wolves and studying them for years. In earlier books like Behavior of Wolves, Dogs and Related Canids, Fox presented the facts...
Next, Bok rationalizes that divestiture is "widely disputed in its merits," as though disagreement about what to do avers the investor's responsibility to do something. The essence of ethical behavior lies in making choices among difficult courses of action. Bok might counter that since there is disagreement within the...
In an effort to demonstrate graphically the potential hazards of recombinant DNA research at Harvard, Cambridge Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci challenges a giant, 400-1b. recombinant clam to a wrestling match over a giant vat of linguini, "I'll come away with enough clam sauce for 100 campaigns," he...
Avers Real Estate Tycoon Byers: "I could lose my millions tomorrow and I wouldn't care, because I could make it all back in six months. I do just what failures are afraid to do." Coal King Burford puts the probability theory another way: "Failure does not count. If...
This trust in reason is an audacious concept, and never before has a people deliberately set out to establish its political life on a principle so pure. Some argue that it is too pure a principle for fallible men. George III may be wrongheaded, they acknowledge, but the British monarchy...