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...Monterey, Calif. - It was the day for the kind of tough questions at TIME?s Future of Life conference that raise temperatures and unleash tempers: Should we begin planning for an onslaught of designer babies? Has the genomics revolution hoodwinked investors? Are genetically modified crops a menace or boon to the world?s food supply? With all the hoopla over gene-splicing, have biologists lost sight of more mundane issues like the devastating loss of plant and animal species...
...Photos From the Event: Quotes from the Conference Scenes from the Conference The Monterey Aquarium...
...going to Monterey to ponder a big topic like the Future of Life, you can?t help but think of the marine biologist Ed Ricketts (1897-1948), a scientist who studied the myriad creatures of Monterey Bay and, more important, was a thinker far ahead of his time. Better known as the model for ?Doc?- the wise, philosophical scientist in John Steinbeck?s books Cannery Row, Sweet Thursday and The Sea of Cortez- Ricketts preached the idea that all life was related, from the sardines that once swarmed by the billions off the California coast to the people who depended...
...Photos From the Event: Quotes from the Conference Scenes from the Conference The Monterey Aquarium...
...befitting a gathering marking the Watson-Crick discovery, the star of the first day?s proceedings turned out to be (who else?) James Watson. (His erstwhile partner, Francis Crick, passed up the chance to appear.) In a public conversation with ABC News correspondent Robert Krulwich at the Monterey Bay Aquarium, Watson wittily retraced the unfolding of the great event 50 years ago, along with some personal history. Insisting that he was not particularly brilliant, he recalled how, as a 13-year-old radio Quiz Kid, he was knocked off the show after only three appearances by a seven-year...