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...Nobel Prize-winning Harvard biologist withdrew his name from the sponsor list of an international revolutionary conference saying he feared the meeting "might be infiltrated with FBI and CIA agents...
...trucks, cars and buses clogged the roads to the adjoining island of Grande-Terre. Some residents were taken out by sea. And some others, participants in the Tour de Guadeloupe bicycle race, left on their bikes. "Most people didn't wait to pack," said Pierre Renaison, 52, a biologist. "They left with just the clothes on their backs...
...Colorado flood, the mysterious ailment that struck the American Legionnaires in Philadelphia-all suggest a more fundamental, and realistic, perspective. It would be banal to say that such demonstrations of nature's awesome force restore man's humility. Still, it is worth repeating the thesis of French Biologist Jacques Monod that events -and mostly the event of life itself-are profoundly random...
...propeller out of the water. The canoe slid easily over the log, hardly disturbing its other occupants, TIME correspondent Bernard Diederich and an odd assortment of caged animals. Following closely behind were two more cayucos manned by other Panamanians and a fiberglass boat carrying the project leader, U.S. Biologist John Walsh, 35. The little flotilla was part of a project called Operation Noah II, sponsored by the London-based International Society for the Protection of Animals. Its mission: to save animals threatened with starvation or drowning as waters rise to cover a 250-sq.-mi. area of jungle behind...
Died. Jacques Monod, 66, Nobel Prize laureate for his research into the mechanics of heredity, which led him to claim that man is a cosmological accident; of blood disease; in Cannes. A Resistance fighter, molecular biologist and, since 1971, director of the Pasteur Institute in Paris, he helped solve the riddle of how cells develop into unique structures like hair or the heart. In his bestselling 1970 book Chance and Necessity, he argued that there is neither god nor grand design in the universe: "Chance alone is at the source of all novelty, all creation". His critics found his philosophy...