Word: biologist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Williams as a junior at the advice of another professor. He wrote his thesis under Williams, and after dropping out of Med School, joined Williams for graduate work. But Milkman found that his true calling led him away from entomology to genetics and he finished his research with another biologist. All the same, Milkman said he learned a "tremendous amount of biology" from Williams, whom he "regard as one of the greatest influences of my life...
...choices. The kind of child rearing they're going to engage in, with a great deal of child care, handing the kid back and forth, is enhancing to the father and mother, but what it means to the child I don't know." Dr. Cecil Jacobson, a Washington reproductive biologist, points out: "Lateborn children are the highest achievers in society. Parents are easier on their kids because they're not trying to make their way in a career and they're more realistic...
...over 30 into better shape than ever before. At Baylor College of Medicine, Obstetrician Robert Franklin sees would-be mothers at 40 "in fabulous condition. They're in better health than many younger women." The popular concern for good nutrition has also made a difference. According to Reproductive Biologist Cecil Jacobson, improved diets help "conserve reproductive capacities...
What was a serious scientist to make of such findings? Could the recollections be nothing more than dreams or hallucinations induced, perhaps, by drugs, lack of oxygen or brain seizures? Could they have been triggered by beta-endorphin, the body's naturally occurring opiate, which, Biologist-Author Lewis Thomas has suggested, may be released at the moment of death to "ensure that dying is a painless and conceivably pleasant experience...
Robert Brustein and E.O. Wilson are competing for the same present, and in the spirit of the season, it's something nice and green. "A healthy and prosperous National Science Foundation" is biologist Wilson's request. And Brustein, the director of the Loeb Drama Center, is asking for "pots and pots of money for the American Repertory Theater...