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...have responded enthusiastically. For example, Michigan took in $490,000 last year, up from $272,000 when it began its program in 1983. Wisconsin collected $472,000, compared with $291,000 in 1983. "State agencies realize they have another constituency besides hunters and fishermen," says Scott Feierabend, a wildlife biologist and legislative representative for the National Wildlife Federation in Washington. "They're considering bird watchers and those who don't pursue wildlife with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Animal Swaps: Anybody want a grizzly? | 12/30/1985 | See Source »

...essays of Stephen Jay Gould are good antidotes. In his fourth collection, the paleontologist, evo- lutionary biologist and Harvard lecturer continues to combine precision with an energetic style. On the ever-hypnotic copulatory practices of the praying mantis, for example: "The male, blessed with paired organs for transferring sperm, inserts one palp, then, if not yet attacked by the female, the other. Hungry females may then gobble up their mates, completing the double-entendre of a consummation devoutly to be wished...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Antidotes the Flamingo's Smile | 9/30/1985 | See Source »

President Bok this morning was scheduled to confer honorary degrees on nine men and a woman, including renowned psychologist B.F. Skinner and Nobel Laureate Andre Lwoff, the French biologist...

Author: By Michael W. Hirschorn, | Title: Skinner, Volcker, 8 Others to Receive Degrees | 6/6/1985 | See Source »

...Audre M. Lwoff. the 83-year-old biologist, shared the 1965 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine for his DNA work. He won the award--with Jacques Monod and Francois Jacob--for his demonstration of lysogeny, a process in which the DNA of a virus becomes incorporated into a bacterial chromosome...

Author: By Michael W. Hirschorn, | Title: Skinner, Volcker, 8 Others to Receive Degrees | 6/6/1985 | See Source »

...Andre M. Lwoff, biologist and Nobel Prize laureate...

Author: By Michael W. Hirschorn, | Title: Skinner, Volcker, 8 Others to Receive Degrees | 6/6/1985 | See Source »

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