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...once brought down by wolves, begin to multiply excessively, stripping vegetation from highlands. And with no elk carcasses lying around, scavengers like magpies, ravens and grizzly bears, accustomed to dining on scraps from wolf kills, have to scrounge elsewhere for protein. "The wolf is a keystone species," says Yellowstone biologist Douglas Smith. "You remove it and the effects cascade down to the grasses...
...They have never told the truth," complains a senior Pentagon official. In fact, the truth about the production of biological killers is hard to come by. The techniques involved in turning out bioweapons are essentially "World War II-type science," says Raymond Zilinskas, a biologist at the University of Maryland, who participated in two U.N. inspection tours in Iraq. He says the mixing of poisons can be carried out by technicians with only modest scientific training using ordinary commercial equipment. The fermenters and centrifuges used every day in dairies, wineries and pharmaceutical houses, for example, can be quickly converted...
Since the Gulf War, Taha, a British-trained biologist, has made a career of thwarting U.N. officials at every turn. She is, says one of them, "a consummate liar." First she claimed that her program had been strictly defensive, and then that all Iraq's biological agents had been destroyed. When inspectors uncovered caches of germ agents, she blandly claimed that only a few small quantities had survived. "Iraq has said that it destroyed stockpiles of biological weapons after the war," says Pentagon spokesman Kenneth Bacon. "We have absolutely no confirmation that that has happened. We assume that they...
Cajete, who was originally a biologist, also discussed the link between indigenous cultures and the natural environment, which he described as "biophilia." He said that biophilia is the "natural human love for living things...
Developed by biologist Roy Curtiss III of Washington University in St. Louis, the vaccine is a weakened form of salmonella that allows the bird's defenses to fight off infections...