Word: bios
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...requirements. Usually there are a number of rather unusual requests, too. This year, some one specifically asked for a roommate not interested in biology. (Maybe out of fear that a pre-med in some tortured state might attack with a dissecting knife after finding out he failed the first Bio 1 hourly...
...cancer-causing virus and led him to synthesize for the first time a portion of a mammalian gene, thus bringing closer the prospect of genetic engineering and control over life. Fearful about what that might mean, the M.l.T.-educated Baltimore is now spearheading efforts to protect the public from "bio-hazards." "Science-fiction fantasies may come true very soon, and we should be prepared," he warns...
Connecticut state police yesterday morning arrested approximately 250 black students who had occupied the library of the University of Connecticut (UConn) overnight in protest of the allegedly racist theories of William S. Laughlin and Benson E. Ginsburg, professors in UConn's department of Bio-Behavioral sciences...
Kroch said the UConn administration earlier this year divided the department of Anthropology into two departments, Social Anthropology and Bio-cultural Anthropology, in order to increase funding for and stifle criticism of attempts to explain cultural traits in terms of genetic differences...
Kiely's error, of course, lay not in revealing the contents of his exam to some students, but in not revealing them to the rest. Similarly, the Biology Department's giving everyone in Bio 21 "A"s on their first hour-exam because all the hour-exams were lost bespoke a certain amount of carelessness, compounded by professors' initial attempt to conceal the loss. But in the end it hurt no one's education and probably pleased most people in the course. They should have lost the final...