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...secret calamity first began to come into the spotlight in 1976, with the appearance of an article by Zhores Medvedev, an exiled Soviet biologist now living in London. In it, he claimed that the Soviets had carelessly stored radioactive wastes in shallow burial facilities. As the debris accumulated, he wrote, radioactive decay caused the material to overheat and, finally, to erupt like a volcano. The first response to this assertion was pronounced skepticism, even among Western experts. The CIA said there had been nothing but a minor accident, and the chairman of Britain's Atomic Energy Authority dismissed the theory...
...best insight into Rifkin's complex mind and motivations appears in his 1983 work Algeny, a book that presents a creationist-like view of Darwin and makes it clear that Rifkin disapproves of tampering with the genes of any of God's creatures--from viruses to man. In Algeny, Biologist Stephen Jay Gould charged in a 1985 review, Rifkin "uses every debater's trick in the book to mischaracterize and trivialize his opposition, and to place his own dubious claims in a rosy light." The book, Gould concludes, is "a cleverly constructed tract of anti-intellectual propaganda masquerading as scholarship...
...Politics" by Jeffery Wise. Women's studies is an academic discipline. Scholars in this field may have originally had their degrees in sociology, psychology, history, political science, anthropology, literature and other fields. They have focused on one part of their discipline, such as "women in literature" just as a biologist may specialize in genetics. They gain further insight through interdisciplinary approaches. Unless Mr. Wise wishes to assert that the above mentioned academic fields are invalid or that interdisciplinary approaches, such as the Social Studies concentration here at Harvard, are academically invalid he has no basis to assert that women...
...games of boozy, castrating Martha, daughter of a small-college president, and her bitter husband George, who is "in the History Department instead of being the History Department." At 2:30 a.m., George and Martha have visitors, a miscast Aaron Carlos as up-and-coming young biologist, Nick, and his mousy wife Honey, brilliantly acted by Jane Loranger...
...Audubon Society. While it acknowledges that the wild birds are in imminent danger of extinction, the society maintains that condors kept in zoos grow used to humans and may not survive when they are reintroduced into their natural habitat. By capturing all the free birds, says Audubon Biologist Jesse Grantham, "we'll be ending a culture in the wild, and we won't be able to bring it back...