Word: environmental
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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LOUIS MASOTTI, political scientist (Northwestern): Ralph Nader. Recalls, product guarantees, truth in packaging, truth in lending, almost all these things were a spillover of the challenge of this one person. Another is Barry Commoner. He has raised our consciousness about the environment and ecological system. I might have chosen Jerry...
32. Anthony Toby Moffett, 34. "What happens when a Nader Raider comes to Congress?" mused the Connecticut Democrat in 1975, shortly after his election. Four years later, Moffett admits: "I'm trying to find the fine line between screaming all the time and being a member of the club." Last...
40. Edward Stone, 43, is the chief scientist for the highly successful Voyager 2 space probe that last month sent back invaluable data on the ring around Jupiter. A cosmic ray physicist born in Iowa and educated at the University of Chicago, Stone teaches at Caltech and directs 100 scientists...
22. Gary Hart, 41, relishes the role of maverick. Says the Democratic Senator from Colorado: "It is difficult to put me in a category. I strike out on my own." In his first term, Hart is already an influential member of three key committees: armed forces, environment and budget. An...
On the coastline of Mexico, just south of the U.S. border, Coke is cultivating shrimp in narrow, shallow channels of water that are covered by plastic bubbles. "All the shrimp have been just about fished out of the oceans," says Austin. That is largely because in the open seas, 98...