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...Vest, who takes over after MIT biologist Philip Sharp declined the post this spring, is no novice at such monumental tasks. At Michigan, he was part of a team which over-hauled the school's engineering curriculum...
...tree farms of numbing uniformity, countless ankle-high seedlings and spindly saplings germinated from seeds selected for their productive capacity. The logging operations have tattered the seamless fabric of old growth that once covered the land. "There are more holes in the blanket than there is blanket," laments BLM biologist Frank Oliver. According to the National Audubon Society, each year enough old-growth trees are taken from the Pacific Northwest to fill a convoy of trucks 20,000 miles long...
...known is that the old growth plays an integral role in regulating water levels and quality, cleaning the air, enhancing the productivity of fisheries and enriching the stability and character of the soil. "We're probably just on the edge in terms of our understanding," says Eric Forsman, a biologist with the Forest Service. "If we continue pell-mell down the path of eliminating these old forests, we'll never have the opportunity to learn because they won't be there to study." He and others have come to believe that where science ends, the mystery that is the ancient...
...broken-topped fir, they scan for prey and ponder the rare two-legged observer far below. Their gentle mewing ! gives way to a distinctive four-note hoot: "who-who, who-who." The male drops down for a closer look and settles on a limb 15 ft. from BLM biologist Oliver. "They have no fear of man," he says. In his hand, Oliver hides a mouse. The moment he exposes it, dangling it by its tail, the mouse disappears in a blur of wings and razor-sharp talons. The owl has carried it off and up to its mate, who snips...
...glorified mom-and-pop operation to a company with 37 plants worldwide. Gore's 5,000 workers ("associates" in company parlance) turn out everything from electronics to a new dental product for gum regeneration. Associates are urged to take long chances. "At Gore," says Jeanne Ambruster- Sherry, a biologist who works in the company's sales-and-marketing division, "if you're not making mistakes, you're doing something wrong." Vieve Gore, 77, who co-founded the company with her late husband Bill in 1958, puts it even more emphatically: "Our objective was to make money while having...