Word: carbon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trouble is that both natural and man-made nutrients (phosphates, nitrate, carbon, iron, calcium) are ending up in bodies of water where they fertilize prodigious growths of algae. As the algae decompose, they use up enormous quantities of oxygen. Fish die; the water looks and tastes so bad that other chemicals have to be added to make even potable water palatable for human use. Finally, a lake turns into a swamp or bog and slowly "dies...
...answer such questions, a Harvard team led by Jonathan Beckwith, 33, turned to the virus, which consists simply of a single DNA molecule sheathed in a thin coating of protein. Most viruses multiply by entering a living cell, taking control of it and then ordering it to produce carbon copies of the invading virus. Eventually the cell bursts, releasing a host of new viruses. Some strains of invading viruses, however, incorporate several of the cell's genes into their own DNA molecule before they depart. There are two different viruses, the Harvard researchers knew, that invade an intestinal bacteria...
Barton's research involved the bonding of atoms in cyclohexane-molecules whose basis is a ring of six carbon atoms. Odd Hassel, the Norwegian chemist with whom Barton shares the Nobel Prize, discovered that the carbon rings formed two types of bonds. Barton explained the occurrence and behavior of both types...
...continually amazed that responsible members of this faculty seem not to realize that the students' interest in faculty appointments are not inept carbon copies of faculty concerns. The faculty looks for competence in the field. and it certainly doesn't need student help in this. But expertise does not necessarily include the ability to transmit such knowledge successfully. The faculty as an entity, let's not fool ourselves, is less interested in the pedagogical abilities of a prospective colleague than students are. I think the position could be defended that a given faculty search committee could well be less competent...
...research and methodological outlook it encourages. Center research and policy advice is dominated by a tacit assumption pervasive among social scientists in general, namely that their role is to devise solutions to problems without overstepping the institutional and political confines of contemporary American society, and without violating our carbon copy image for what a good society would be like in other countries...