Word: dubose
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A provocative argument: longer is not better. But Americans have shied off from similar points made in recent years. When former Colorado Governor Richard Lamm spoke out in 1984 about the terminally ill's "duty to die," his forthrightness seemed eccentric. In his writing, the late Dr. Rene Dubos urged...
At the Louvre des Antiquaires in Paris, where an inlaid l8th century commode starts at $10,000, tourists are bidding on practically everything. "The Americans are in the process of buying out the entire French patrimony," complains a haughty young dealer who is doing his best to help them. "Everything...
DIED. René Jules Dubos, 81, microbiologist and environmentalist; of cancer; in New York City. Dubos won fame in 1939 for research that led to the first commercially produced antibiotics. He expounded the idea in several of his 20-odd books that a favorable environment is necessary to human physical...
-Barbara Ward and René Dubos. Only One Earth
Dubos's ideas will not appeal to those hard-line environmentalists who regard man as an interloper and a destroyer of the planet. The author, noting that all animals alter their environments, brilliantly marshals his evidence for an intelligent balance. He may not convince those whose idea of nature...