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...oyster guillotine," was invented. That instrument, a convex iron blade 5 ft. or 6 ft. long, denuded the coasts of Europe and the U.S. by ripping up the oyster beds. It was touch and go whether the oyster would survive at all, until an inspired French marine biologist, Victor Coste, discovered in the mid-1800s the secret of collecting larvae and raising seed, making it possible to grow oysters in waters where for various reasons they are unable to breed. The oysters of Locmariaquer, for instance, are transplanted three times before they are shipped to market. The success...
...Around Us brought Rachel Carson fame and fortune but not much happiness. A marine biologist by training, she never married ("because I didn't have time"), lived with her ailing mother and an orphaned grandnephew whom she adopted. After resigning from her Washington job, she wrote another successful book, The Edge of the Sea, and though painfully shy lectured widely. Then, about six years ago, her old friends Stuart and Olga Huckins complained that anti-mosquito spraying had damaged birds in the two-acre nature sanctuary that they maintain near Duxbury, Mass. Thus was born Silent Spring...
Died. Rachel Carson, 56, biologist and author; of cancer of the bone; in Silver Spring, Md. (see SCIENCE...
...across the country, the University of Illinois got a "massive public reaction" denouncing Oliver. That confronted President David D. Henry with a prickly case of academic freedom. Illinois is currently on the censure list of the American Association of University Professors as the result of the 1960 ouster of Biologist Leo Koch, who wrote a letter to the campus newspaper backing premarital sex among students. After a storm of public protest, Henry requested Koch's dean in a letter to relieve the biologist "immediately" of his duties, then had the letter publicized in the press. Henry thus acted without...
...then stop, will I be able to conceive?" The answer is an emphatic yes. By a sort of rebound effect, the pills increase fertility in women who stop taking them. Indeed, the pills were largely developed by a Roman Catholic gynecologist, Boston's Dr. John Rock, working with Biologist Gregory...