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...Young Edison. What worries scientists is the obvious dangers in any policy, however well intended, that aims at short-term practical and political benefits at the expense of more fundamental research. Nixon's war on cancer, for instance, would not have been possible without the vital groundwork laid by many molecular biologists who spent long, wearying hours in the lab unraveling the structure and workings of the DNA and RNA molecules. They did their work with no concern other than a desire to add to man's store of knowledge. To a large degree, the U.S. was able...
...Harvard Ecology Action group last night voted to sponsor a forum concerning Black Rock Forest, a part of which Consolidated Edison wants to buy from Harvard to build a power plant...
Long ago Fuller adopted the Thomas Edison system of quick snoozes so that he could manage 22-hour working days. Yet it is typical of Fuller's unorthodox way of looking at the world that he first got the idea of catnaps from watching a dog. In his familiar role as a minister of progress from the 21 st century and "publicist for the universe," Fuller is not only a generalist in the best American twinker-tinker tradition, he is the human equivalent of Telstar-intercepting the music of the spheres and vectoring it down to earth with...
...property in question is a large tract of forest land bequeathed to the University by Ernest G. Stillman '08 upon his death in 1949. Consolidated Edison, the New York power utility, would need to purchase 240 acres of that land to build a controversial pumped storage power plant which has been tied up in litigation for the past ten years...
Consolidated Edison, the New York power utility, would need 240 acres of the forest to build a controversial pumped-stroage power project at Storm King Mountain, a plan which has been tied up in litigation for ten years. Con Ed last approached the University concerning purchase of the land shortly before the beginning of the Bok Administration...