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More important, one in six wildcat wells (wells drilled where there has been no previous exploration) has been striking oil or gas-a very high success rate. "We are finding big gas fields in Oklahoma, western Wyoming and even Nevada, of all places!" says Marvin Davis. head of Denver's Davis Oil Co a big independent driller. "There is so much baloney coming out of Washington that we are running...
...strongest argument against sociobiology is that it underrates the emergence of the human brain, consciousness and culture. Said Columbia Anthropologist Marvin Harris to an M.I.T. audience last year: "Sociobiologists tend to drastically underestimate the result to which human cultures represent an emergent novelty." His point: even simple organisms show great variation in behavior, but only the genes can pass it on. Among humans, learning can be passed on by culture, thus overwhelming the genetic contribution to behavior...
...Marvin H. Kabakoff...
More serious analysts point to the fact that, historically, rapid economic expansion and ethnically mixed populations have produced crime?hence the waves of violence in the U.S. in the middle and late 19th century. Another factor that historically has been accompanied by crime, points out Sociologist Marvin Wolfgang, is individual freedom. Some experts today argue that juvenile crime is spreading because everyone is pushing what he considers his "rights" to the utmost limits. Standards are lowered and blurred: any behavior, however deviant, finds its instant defenders. The traditional and constraining institutions of family, church and school have lost much...
...book published last week, The Grand Jury: An Institution on Trial, U.S. Judge Marvin Frankel and Attorney Gary Naftalis conclude: "The Grand Jury has served too often to harass the unorthodox and the unpopular." Several reforms suggested by Frankel and Naftalis appear in a bill submitted by U.S. Representative Joshua Eilberg. The proposed law would...