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Despite resistance, sociobiology has been absorbed into the scientific mainstream, and Wilson's spadework in the fields of entomology and island biogeography has passed rigorous peer review. His book On Human Nature won a Pulitzer Prize in 1979, and this year he shared the Crafoord Prize with population biologist Paul Ehrlich of Stanford. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences administers the $240,000 award, established to recognize areas not covered by the Nobel Prizes...
...Ukrainian nationalist movement needed a Betsy Ross, it certainly found one in Orest Kaledin. On a stroll through Lvov (pop. 860,000), the largest city in the Western Ukraine, the biologist turned flagmaker points to five new yellow-and-blue national banners flapping from the town hall. They are his and his wife's handiwork, says Kaledin with pride. He dreams of designing uniforms and ensigns for a revived Ukrainian army. Pointing out a friend on the street -- a scrawny person of decidedly unmilitary bearing -- he explains confidentially that the young man is destined to become "one of our generals...
...world-famous biologist stops at Cambridge Trust Co. to get cash from the automated teller...
...Forest Service biologist Eric Forsman, who has studied the owl since 1968, believes it was the strategy of the federal agencies to stall for time by continually asking for more studies on the owl. "I've seen how the games are played," says Forsman. BLM in particular ignored repeated alarms. As < early as 1976, BLM biologist Mayo Call warned his superiors that unless swift action was taken to protect the owl, it might one day have to be put on the endangered-species list, curtailing timber harvests on federal lands...
...listed as endangered until a federal court in 1988 judged that refusal to be "arbitrary and capricious." Later the General Accounting Office discovered that Fish and Wildlife officials had rewritten portions of a major study, expunging critical references suggesting the owl was endangered. One biologist said he felt pressured to "sanitize the report." For years, economics and politics, not biology, have controlled the decisions of BLM, the Forest Service and Fish and Wildlife...