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...year-old biologist seemed nonpluseed at all the attention centered on him and confessed he was "overwhelmed" by the announcement. When asked to tell what he had done, he replied simply. "We thought DNA was important and that we ought to know its structure. Crick and I thought we could guess the structure if we went about it in the right way, and I suppose...
...yesterday's press conference with James D. Watson, the men of Boston's newspapers and television stations noded their heads furiously as the Nobel-Prize-winning biologist attempted to explain what he had done, but the questions they fired cast doubt on the extent of their understanding...
Such is the picture drawn of the future in Silent Spring, a new book by Rachel Carson, whose The Sea Around Us earned her a reputation not only as a competent marine biologist but as a graceful writer. Miss Carson's deadly white powder is not radioactive fallout, as many readers will at first assume. The villains in Silent Spring are chemical pesticides, against which Miss Carson has taken up her pen in alarm and anger, putting literary skill second to the task of frightening and arousing her readers. Published this week, the book has already raised a swirl...
...Biologist Benson Ginsburg bites wolves. Not that the University of Chicago professor gets a special kick from his odd occupation; his dangerous pastime is part of a serious scientific effort to discover if wildness can be bred out of wild animals. Starting with wild mice, he has worked up through coyotes to wolves, which are notoriously hard to gentle. Today, in laboratory pens, or loping around a one-acre enclosure at the Chicago Zoo, are five golden-eyed monsters that Dr. Ginsburg has raised from fuzzy pups. They are strong enough to kill a moose, but they play with...
...chaplains, Humanist societies are generally denied the recognition that governments accord to religious groups. But what they lack in privilege, the Humanists make up in prestige: the ranks of the American Humanist Association are heavy with scientists and intellectuals, and the international union boasts such influential leaders as British Biologist Julian Huxley and two Nobel prizewinners, British Agriculturist Lord Boyd Orr and U.S. Geneticist Hermann Muller...