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Yannacone's (and E.D.F.'s) unofficial motto was: "Sue the bastards." Backed up by an articulate biologist, Charles Wurster, who was his perennial best witness. Yannacone launched fierce and well-documented attacks on DDT in Michigan and Wisconsin; eventually both states banned most uses of the chemical. Later, he haled into court a Hoerner Waldorf paper plant in Montana for polluting the air; the resulting publicity embarrassed the company into installing antipollution devices before the litigation could run its course...
...Washington, D.C., Calhoun started with eight mice in an null cage; within a little more than two years, they had multiplied to 2,200, but they were hardly alive-mere "passive blobs of protoplasm, frozen in a childlike trance." Summing up the sentiments of many population experts, Stanford Biologist Paul Ehrlich (who has had himself sterilized) concludes that "if we don't do something dramatic about population and environment, and do it immediately, there is just no hope that civilization will persist...
...Boys. Margaret originally intended to become a biologist, and took up photography only in order to help pay for her last year at Cornell. Using a secondhand lea Reflex with a cracked lens that her mother had bought for $20, she shot campus scenes and sold them to students. Her early reputation was made in the unlikely field of industrial photography. Where others saw only grime, Bourke-White saw beauty; her camera could find drama and action in a factory. All the major pictures in FORTUNE'S first issue were by Bourke-White...
...past times, the area teemed with thousands of breeding gulls. Wheeling overhead, they scavenged for dead fish and refuse-and picked the beaches clean. In 1962, William C. Scharf, a biologist at Northwestern Michigan College, counted 2,500 gulls' nests on nearby Bellows Island alone. This spring he found only 300. Why? Scharf partly blames dune-buggy drivers who careen through nesting grounds, plus harmful human discards like pop-top beer-can rings, which can injure hungry gulls. But the chief reason is heavy use of chlorinated hydrocarbons: DDT and its chemical cousins, dieldrin and chlordane...
Matthew Meselson, Sc.D., molecular biologist, Harvard professor and opponent of biological warfare. As a founder of modern genetics and social conscience for those who advance scientific knowledge, you have demonstrated the power of sustained effort to assure that the science of life does not cause death or destruction anywhere on the globe...