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Jacobsen has also worked as a consultant for the Exxon Corporation, Sepracor and Ethyl Corporation. He has taught only at University of Illinois, where he joined the faculty in 1988. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the National Institutes of Health at MIT from...
...position is a full-time job, but Dorfman is also one of the section's more prolific reporters. A biology major at Yale, where she was also science editor of the Yale Daily News, she has covered everything from the Neolithic Iceman found in an Alpine glacier to the Exxon Valdez oil spill to genetic engineering. She was also one of the organizing hands behind TIME's intensive treatment of the 1992 Earth Summit. Still, Dorfman, who keeps a small collection of fossils herself, has a fondness for things that come out of the past to enlighten the present. Without...
...Exxon and other behemoths oppose the idea: most get the bulk of their oil from foreign wells. Exxon chairman Lawrence Rawl flatly declares that the fee "wouldn't work" and "would not be in the interest of the economy, the consumer or American industry." Among other drawbacks, critics argue, the fee could violate terms of the North American Free Trade Agreement (by taxing imports from Mexico). "The import fee distorts the market and would be a subsidy for domestic producers," says Ed Rothschild, energy policy director for Citizen Action, the largest U.S. consumer lobby. "Most important, you will never...
...beaches. Thus the Shetlands are likely to be spared the costly and environmentally disruptive cleanup that followed the spilling of nearly 11 million gal. of crude (less than half the amount lost by the Braer) into Prince William Sound in Alaska. Says Robert Spies, chief scientist for the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council: "There is ample evidence that overzealous cleanup can be harmful." The chemical detergents, high-pressure sprays and brushes used to clean beaches and rocks after a spill destroy microorganisms that are an important part of the seaside's ecology. The surfaces of rocks are attractively cleaned...
...avoid the ecological holocaust that hit Prince William Sound, where an estimated 435,000 birds died. January is the off-season for birds in the Shetlands. Had the accident taken place in the spring, when bird migration is in full swing -- as it was in Alaska just after the Exxon Valdez accident -- thousands of guillemots and razorbills, which nest and breed off nearby Sumburgh Head, would have been at risk...