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...shadows of the larger crisis have loomed over the U.S. for years. Back in the '50s, the Paley Report, commissioned by President Eisenhower, pinpointed a coming shortage of oil and coal. The warnings increased in tempo in the '60s. Biologist Paul Ehrlich was among the decade's many Cassandras. "Using straight mathematics," he now says, "what I was predicting then was foreseeable in the late '40s and early '50s. It was a case of simple multiplication-the number of people times what we were doing...
...socialist, Medvedev remains a committed Marxist-Leninist. Even though he was expelled from the Party in 1969 for his writings about Stalin, he is respected both by dissidents and many orthodox Communists. Shortly after Medvedev's expulsion, Soviet authorities tried to have his twin brother, Zhores, a brilliant biologist, declared insane for writing a critical book about Stalin's crackpot geneticist, T.D. Lysenko...
...training as a marine biologist (Ph.D. from Stanford, professorship at the University of Washington) hardly qualified her to set nuclear policy or equipped her to deal with the Byzantine ways of Capitol Hill politics. But she obviously learns fast. James Schlesinger (now Defense Secretary) strongly recommended her to succeed him when he left the AEC chairmanship to become CIA director last winter. Her greatest asset, he said, would be "balancing the demands of energy and environment." President Nixon, who had been looking for women to fill high federal posts, agreed; in February he appointed Ray to head the five...
Reserve Mining has been under attack by environmentalists over the dumping issue for six years. A persistent federal biologist named Louis Williams opened the attack by making a 10-month study of the plant's operation on his own initiative. He concluded in a 1967 report that the tailings were not, as the company contended, falling harmlessly to the lake bottom. Instead, he said, they were partially dissolving and releasing into the water nutrients that hasten the growth of algae...
...surveys, it turns out, are nothing new. Between 1892 and 1920, 47 middle-class American women answered an explicit questionnaire passed around by a Stanford researcher, physician and biologist, Clelia Duel Mosher. This spring Stanford Historian Carl Degler, while doing research on women's history, unearthed the surprisingly unrestrained 650-page document in the Stanford library...