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...period like the opening of the American West," says Marine Biologist John Teal at the Woods Hole (Mass.) Oceanographic Institution. "Everybody is trampling over everybody else to stake a claim in the oceans." That signals an end to a view that has prevailed for 350 years: the fundamental freedom of the seas. It was first stitched into international law by Hugo Grotius, the Dutch jurist who wrote in 1609 that the ocean "is common to all, because it is so limitless that it cannot become the possession of anyone." The seas, he concluded, "can be neither seized nor enclosed...
...Poskanzer view still has not won total acceptance. Dr. Caleb Finch, a biologist at the Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center in Los Angeles, is one of many researchers today who point out that it is still only an intriguing hypothesis. Finch notes that little is known about the effects of aging on the brain. There may be other causes that produce symptoms of Parkinsonism without being clear-cut cases of the disease...
...Statistically, the probability of any one of us being here is so small that you'd think the mere fact of existing would keep us all in a contented dazzlement of surprise," Biologist Lewis Thomas writes in The Lives of a Cell. Thomas' sense of contented dazzlement and his delight in scientific discovery are familiar to readers of his column, "Notes of a Biology Watcher," which appears regularly in the austere New England Journal of Medicine. His book, a collection of some of the best of those pieces, shows those who do not read the Journal how much...
Thomas argues elegantly that it is when our bodies forget the importance of living symbolically with other organisms that we contract disease. Most bacteria are not dangerous to man. The man who catches a meningococcus, as the biologist emphasizes, is in considerably less risk of losing his life than the meningococcus unlucky enough to catch a man. It is man's overreaction to many germs, a sort of immunological overkill, that puts him at risk, since his weapons for fighting off bacteria are so powerful that they endanger him as much as they do invaders. Most people, for example...
Ramsey receives both support and strong criticism in the same issue of the Hastings Center Studies from Dr. Leon Kass, a physician and molecular biologist who works in biomedical ethics. Kass takes issue with Ramsey's view of death as an "indignity," insisting instead that "to live is to be mortal." Jewish, if not Christian teaching has generally held that view, Kass says; evolutionary biology confirms and strengthens...