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Only 2 in. to 3 in. long when fully grown, the gypsy-moth caterpillar looks harmless enough: a brownish, multilegged strip of fur with telltale pairs of red and blue spots running down its back. But looks are deceptive. Ever since 1869, when it was inadvertently turned loose in Massachusetts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Munch Gypsy, Crunch Gypsy | 7/13/1981 | See Source »

Heather had a particularly silly grin on her face as she trudged to Littauer, but she didn't care. Thesis writers were lounging around, munching on cookies and Swedish meatballs. Heather set down her two copies. A tutor asked her if she wanted beer, wine, or some of Kentucky's...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CREATION OF A THESIS | 4/10/1981 | See Source »

While Berg and his colleagues were agonizing about the possible dangers posed by their experiments, two other scientists were planning an even more dramatic display of gene splicing. One of them was an intense biochemist named Stanley Cohen, 46, whose lab was only two floors below Berg's own quarters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shaping Life In the Lab | 3/9/1981 | See Source »

Over the next 48 hours, Cucinotta rebuilds his confidence as he reworks his argument. An hour before the big moment finds him munching an apple in the court's lobby. He has shaved his mustache and put on a dark blue suit, and by now he is flying. "Equal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Sam's Hour of Glory?and Agony | 1/26/1981 | See Source »

Poor Omega. Once the pride of the Brookfield (Ill.) Zoo, he is now an outcast. Rejected by two female companions, the hefty 450-lb. gorilla sits alone in his cage, forlornly munching on alfalfa or taking a lackadaisical swing on the rubber tire hanging from his ceiling. Omega's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Dwindling Breed | 12/22/1980 | See Source »

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