Word: blaire
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stupendous task. Natural systems are scientific nightmares of complexity, redundancy and loose organization. To cope with those systems requires what I.B.P. scientists call "big biology"-the reinforcement of biology by a dozen disciplines, including meteorology, physics and geology. Because most specialists have traditionally worked alone, W. Frank Blair, chairman of the U.S. effort in I.B.P., held a series of five-day workshops at which the scientists learned to talk to one another. "It was difficult for them to get over their individual hang-ups, their insecurities, and to expose their ignorance in fields related to their own," he says...
...Tropical forest study involves the South American rain forest-one of the earth's principal suppliers of oxygen. "Ecologically unwise use of the huge Amazon forest could have environmental repercussions with global effects," says Blair. "Yet we know less about this forest than about any other ecosystem...
Spider's Warning. In the future, Blair, together with his Swedish and Russian counterparts, hopes to develop a global warning system to detect pollution. Before their plan is presented at the U.N. World Conference on Environment in 1972, Blair plans to test a prototype station. The system's scope will appear only as a vast number of small details are analyzed. The ability of a spider to spin a web, for example, can be affected by air pollution; mosses, which accumulate lead from the environment, are a good measure of lead pollution. In effect, the system will...
Restaged for Joffrey by David Blair (who danced the original Captain Belaye in London), the work produces unabashed delight in the mutiny, wholesale though ladylike transvestism, and twin marriages that follow, courtesy of W.S. Gilbert. As Poll, Charthel Arthur falls in love more energetically than anyone m recent memory. As dashing Captain Belaye, the man whose Apollonian suavity, superb condescension and sheer sexiness cause all the trouble, Edward Verso turns a comic role into a major characterization. One rude criterion for establishing a ballet's worth is the impulse to dance that it stirs in an average member...