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...foreign policy. Said Russell Train, director of the Environmental Protection Agency: "The stresses generated hi a hungry world will not stop at our borders. We are part of an interdependent world." Should there be major agricultural disasters in the U.S., Asia and the Soviet Union, warned Stanford University Biologist Paul Ehrlich, "our problems of foreign policy will quickly be converted into problems of military policy...
...hired two research assistants with different skills to divide one salary. In Palo Alto, Calif., Ruth Freis and Miriam Miller share the post of program director for a network of day-care centers, and Engineer Chris Jako has arranged to split a job planning a science center with Biologist Pat Cross. A few liberal-arts colleges-including Iowa's Grinnell and Ohio's Oberlin-have hired husband-and-wife teams for single junior professorial slots...
...employ a natural converter to get energy directly from sunlight. Last week Cell Biologist Walther Stoeckenius, 54, with colleagues at the University of California at San Francisco and a team from NASA'S Ames Research Center, announced that a purple pigment found in red bacteria from the Dead Sea and salt flats round the world also directly converts sunlight into energy. While the pigment is less efficient than chlorophyll-only an estimated 10% of light energy is converted-it is more stable and easily extracted from the bacteria...
...division of the Biology Department is now conducting a search for a behavioral biologist that will consider sociobiologists among candidates for the tenured position...
Radioactive Legacy. A major concern is nuclear wastes, one of which, plutonium, has a half-life of over 24,000 years. Safeguarding wastes alone, says Biologist Barry Commoner, would require the creation of a kind of permanent "nuclear priesthood," to watch over the radioactive legacy each generation of Americans handed down to its successors...