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Sharp would succeed Paul E. Gray, who steps down June 30 to take over as chairman of the MIT Corp., which governs the school. He would become the first biologist to head the university. known world wide for its scientific research...
...would it? According to a report in last week's Science, the asbestos "crisis" is grossly exaggerated, and the public would do well to save its dread and its dollars. Says Brooke Mossman, a cell biologist at the University of Vermont College of Medicine and the lead author of the report: "Low-level exposure is not a threat to human health. The scare is unprecedented, and the amount spent on asbestos removal is ridiculous." In fact, say Mossman and her co-authors, removal often puts more asbestos into the air than was there in the first place...
Much of the responsibility for enforcing the cleanup will fall on Nikolai Vorontsov, who last year became chairman of the State Committee on the Protection of Nature. A noted biologist and environmentalist, Vorontsov, 54, is the first non-Communist ministerial-rank member of the Soviet government since the Bolshevik Revolution. Observes a Western diplomat in Moscow: "Three years ago, I'd never have thought it possible that environmentalists would get this...
News of the environmental assaults has unleashed a global wave of concern about Antarctica's future. "It is now clear that the continent's isolation no longer protects it from the impact of man," declares Bruce Manheim, a biologist with the Environmental Defense Fund. How best to protect Antarctica has been a topic of fierce debate in meetings from Washington to Wellington, New Zealand. Everyone agrees that the issue is of great importance and urgency. Despite the damage done so far, Antarctica is still largely pristine, the only wild continent left on earth. There scientists can study unique ecosystems...
...race for partnership. Other fields are even less accommodating. "In academic science, the granting situation is so tight that even if you are very creative, if you divert your energy to a child, it will be extremely difficult to compete," says Lola Reid, a research biologist at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City. Reid, who has a one-year-old daughter, advocates a separate pool of grant money for scientists who are in their peak years of child rearing. Otherwise, she says, "we're going to lose a highly trained population; they will simply drop...