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...biology and physics. Most American children still get only a year of biology in secondary school and few take any physics. Many U.S. high schools ask students to take only two years of math and one of science. Few students elect to go beyond the minimum. Says Harvard Microbiologist Roger Nichols, who is also director of the Boston Museum of Science: "Our third-and fourth-grade kids are natural little scientists, but after eighth grade, only 20% are still interested in math and science...
...measure, herpes is an extraordinary bug. "It is the ultimate parasite," declares University of Michigan Microbiologist Charles Shipman. Says Washington, D.C., Urologist Peter Gross: "If you were doing a science-fiction movie, you couldn't invent something better than herpes." What makes it unique is that unlike influenza and other viruses, it survives in the human body. long after an attack has subsided. Once herpes has found its way into your system, says Dr. Harold Kessler, a Chicago specialist in infectious disease, "it's your virus for life...
Since then, scientific astonishment over the discovery has burgeoned. Unlike most terrestrial life, these creatures in the deep survive without the benefit of sunlight to supply energy or help create food supplies. Rather, they rely totally on the earth's internal heat. Explains Marine Microbiologist Holger Jannasch of the Woods Hole (Mass.) Oceanographic Institution, which operates the Alvin: "If the sun didn't shine any more, these deep-sea populations would still be growing, while we and all the green plants would die. They depend only on Mother Earth...
Though the jurors apparently decided it did not, lawyers representing women in other TSS cases could take satisfaction from the jury's negligence verdict. It did not explicitly find that Rely caused toxic shock. But Microbiologist Philip Tierno of New York University Medical Center clearly bolstered the plaintiffs case with his testimony that the cellulose chips in Rely "can provide the sole nutrient" to encourage the growth of Staphylococcus aureus, a bacterium sometimes present in the vagina. The bacteria, in turn, generate poisonous waste products, which are circulated by the blood...
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, mental and social development; So Human an Animal won a Pulitzer Prize...