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...young conifers, may prove to be man's allies: their labyrinthine burrowing improves soil aeration and helps water flow through the compacted ash. Elk and deer have been spotted around water sources in the blowdown area. Though fish are unlikely to be seen in Spirit Lake for years, bacteria and algae have colonized the lakes to become the first link in a developing food chain. The insect population was heavily damaged, but scientists are now finding ladybugs feeding on the sap of green bracken ferns, which are emerging from the ash, and armies of black ants at work...
Tests on the mucus, which Hyman had collected by poking a giant Q-Tip into the blowhole, revealed four different types of pneumonia bacteria. The prospects seemed bleak. But scientists dosed the animal with penicillin and began serving it squid-a sperm whale favorite. Soon it started "sitting" higher in the water, raising its head and emitting the clicking sounds that sperms seem to use for communication or echo locating...
Goodfield chooses for her example. Anna Brito an immunologist studying lymphocytes the white corpuscles of the blood. Lymphocytes are the body's soldiers patrolling the blood on the lookout for invaders. They are microsopic warriers: cells that defend us from the bacteria viruses and parasites that constantly attack...
...gene splicers have let the genie out of the bottle. But they will not bring peace or prosperity. For if bacteria can consume oil spills in peace, they can certainly eat an enemy's fuel supply in war. In a nation already at the mercy of its energy supply, what better way to be destroyed...
DIED. Max Delbrück, 74, molecular biologist whose pioneering research on bacteriophages (viruses whose genetic matter "invades" or "infects" bacteria) laid the foundation of modern molecular genetics and won him a Nobel Prize in 1969; of cancer; in Pasadena, Calif...