Word: dubose
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Yesterday's Phi Beta Kappa orator, microbiologist Rene Dubos, might well be named along with the others. So might retiring Divinity School Dean Krister Stendahl.
Supporting this view in an Op Ed piece in The New York Times last April, Rene Dubos, a microbiologist and professor emeritus of Rockefeller University, wrote, "I now realize [however] that genetic change occurs frequently under natural conditions... I doubt that gene recombination in the laboratory will create microbes more...
While Washington remains primarily concerned with the possibilities of an accident occurring in a laboratory in the form of spills, there is still the problem of anticipating what the results of DNA experimentation will be used for. Dubos seems optimistic about the future, but Jonathan R. Beckwith, professor of Microbiology...
-René Dubos, Beast or Angel?
New Englanders generally, not to mention hordes of fancy estivators from New York and Washington, know Henry Beetle Hough as the fabled and enduring editor of a much loved Martha's Vineyard paper, the biweekly Vineyard Gazette. But the paper was sold soon after Hough's wife of...