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...right questions-they are taking the questions that are easier to research." Scholars often frame their grant proposals broadly enough to blanket their real research interests. The sociologist interested in youth gangs, for example, is more likely to get money for a study of slum neighborhoods. Conversely, a biologist who merely wanted to find out whether a high-protein fish flour was unsafe for human consumption landed a grant by emphasizing that he wanted to know if the flour would induce cancer...
...Lunar Orbiter II have illumined the moon as being little more than an ugly grey rock pile. So why send a man to see for himself? The geologist wants it done because he hopes to find clues to when and how the earth came to be. The biologist wants to know if there are any vestiges of existence there that might solve the riddle of what life really is. The astronomer hopes that a definitive look at the moon could help unlock the secret of how the solar system was formed. The astronaut wants to go because it is there...
Contributors have always ranked among France's most eminent men of letters; today they range from Political Analyst Raymond Aron to Moviemaker Rene Clair to Biologist Jean Rostand to Play wright Jean Anouilh...
...there are legions of vagabonds like Corominas. In the rain forests of the Caribbean island of Trinidad, Amherst Biologist Lincoln Brower, 34, is leaping after lepidoptera to check out a theory that the color patterns of butterflies edible to birds are evolving toward the color patterns of nonedible butterflies, as a measure of survival. Last week Entomologist Dennis Hynes, 37, of California State Polytech, slipped on snowshoes to walk atop thigh-deep drifts on Washington's Mount Baker and bring back iceboxes filled with larvae specimens of a crop-killing insect called the crane...
...tests involving 32 different strains of bacteria, Cornell University Biologist Martin Alexander and General Electric Chemist John Gould have found that each excretes metabolic wastes that are chemically distinct. When the waste products of a single strain are passed through a laboratory chromatograph. a device that separates chemical compounds, they produce a distinctive graph with characteristic peaks and valleys. Thus the graphs or chromatograms of unidentified bacteria can be com pared with those of known bacteria and-like fingerprints-be used to establish their exact identity...