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Bateriologist (Arthur Hill), biologist (Kate Reid), surgeon (James Olson) and pathologist (David Wayne) are assigned to the microscopic object which consumes plastic and turns blood to powder. One American has already been annihilated; now the Andromeda strain seems bent on total destruction. The Thing multiplies by some unknown process. At great-too great-length, the brains decide to nuke it to death. But wait! They suddenly realize their folly. Split atoms are what make the Thing thrive. It eats them for breakfast. The countdown begins. Can the stalwart defuse the bomb in time? The clock eats up seconds...
...been using herbicides and CS, a tear-gas riot-control agent, in Viet Nam, and there is genuine legal confusion over whether Rogers' interpretation is correct. But why should the Geneva Protocol not be considered to forbid all forms of chemical and biological warfare? Harvard Biologist Matthew Meselson, who spent six weeks in Viet Nam last summer, argues that CS has been decreasingly useful because of enemy countermeasures that range from Soviet-made gas masks to face cloths soaked in urine; even Robert Komer, who ran the pacification program under Lyndon Johnson, concedes that defoliants and crop-destroying agents...
...Biologist Meselson argues that over the next few decades molecular biology will probably unlock the few remaining scientific secrets of life. The new knowledge could make the destructive capacity of chemical and biological agents immensely more horrible than it is today. Meselson insists that it would be better to be out of the business altogether, so that no war planner or procurement officer could ever be led into temptation...
...were boats plying Sweden's rocky coastline because 185 of 400 pilots stopped working. In Stockholm's largest court, only nine of 80 prosecutors reported for work. As imported products piled up in warehouses, some industries laid off workers for lack of raw materials. One young biologist, who was writing a doctoral thesis on the genetics of fruit flies, was locked out of Stockholm's Genetic Institute because he is an instructor. But he won the right to go back in because he is also a graduate student, and he was thus able to keep his fruit...
...problem in 1945, became the paradigm for the re-evaluation of educational programs in high schools and colleges all over the country. The report, popularly known as the Redbook, was drawn up by a group of the finest minds in the country, including historian Paul Buck, classicist John Finley, biologist George Wald, poet I. A. Richards, former Radcliffe president W. K. Jordan, and the senior Arthur Schlesinger...