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...Ricketts (1897-1948), a scientist who studied the myriad creatures of Monterey Bay and, more important, was a thinker far ahead of his time. Better known as the model for ?Doc?- the wise, philosophical scientist in John Steinbeck?s books Cannery Row, Sweet Thursday and The Sea of Cortez- Ricketts preached the idea that all life was related, from the sardines that once swarmed by the billions off the California coast to the people who depended on them for their livelihoods. He quaintly called his philosophy the ?toto picture.? In these ecologically minded times that thought may seem prosaic...
...historic curiosity as we gather only paces from Doc Rickett?s Lab (still lovingly preserved) to ponder the future of the genetic revolution. We know he favored the simple life, as in his admiration for the unencumbered lifestyle of the Indians he encountered with Steinbeck around the Sea of Cortez. He also had a profound appreciation of nature, untrammeled and unspoiled. He did not like to see it reel under unthinking human assault. But as a scientist, he also understood the power and potential of research to improve the human condition. He was deeply concerned about the world?s ability...
...ahead, not speaking. A pregnant woman in a brown knit dress shifts her weight from one foot to the other. And Felipe Oyola, 24, and his mother-in-law Nelida Rivera fill in a form that more than 4,900 other families have filed since Sept. 11. Name: Adianes Cortez-Oyola. Birthday: Aug. 9, 1978. Marital status: Married--on March 25, 2000 (in St. Agatha's Church in Brooklyn; she and Felipe planned it all themselves...
Though Aaron left his dye fixture, acid and material at home in Cortez, Colo., he admits to nosing around his Thayer basement laundry room for the proper location to recreate his tie-dying factory. In Cortez, he sold T-shirts for $15 a pop at the local record shop and he has already received a number of requests for his creations from eager Harvard freshmen. Most of them say its cool that I wear tie-dye, he says. But some dont...
...towns that have become magnets for gringo retirees, and another reason why it's often hard to tell where one country stops and the other begins. About 125 miles south of the border, this once tiny fishing village now stretches along the blue-green waters of the Sea of Cortez into a 50-mile-long cordon of dusty RV parks and mid-market subdivisions, all catering to seniors. Some 24,000 Mexicans and 9,000 nortenos coexist here, more apart than together. There are separate services in English and Spanish at the Baptist church; Alcoholics Anonymous offers meetings for Anglos...