Word: scared
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although the scientists left Asilomar thinking that they had allayed public fear about their work, they had only managed to fan it. Newspapers, which had until then paid scant attention to the story of recombinant DNA, erupted with scare headlines, alarming the nation with exaggerated doomsday prophecies. Two months later, Ted Kennedy held his first hearings on the new genetics. Some scientists, joined by politicians, began questioning whether the molecular biologists should do their own policing. Said one: "This is probably the first time in history that the incendiaries formed their own fire brigade...
...ROAD SCARE. A Mankato, Minn., waste-oil dealer discovered that, without his permission, a trucker had been transporting fuel in his tanks to Iowa, where it was to have been sprayed on the state's gravel roads to keep down the dust. Trouble was that some of the fuel, a solvent, was heavily contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), a class of highly toxic chemicals that have been implicated in birth defects and nervous disorders. Environmental officials were notified; they located the contaminated solvent in Cedar Falls and Fort Dodge, Iowa, before it had been used. Had the solvent been...
...Idealists scare me," one Nieman calmly confided to another over a glass of wine after Seeger's seminar. "Perhaps that's the problem," the other replied...
...year as well, bringing very bad luck. To avoid this, the Chinese believed it necessary either to abstain from cooking in order not to attract them into their homes with the smells of a good meal, a strategy obviously not in the interests of the living, or else to scare them away with firecrackers and dragons. But as the fear of these evil spirits declined in china, so did the impulse to ward them off, producing the paradoxical situation of many Chinese immigrants seeing a dragon dance for the first time when they came to the United States...
...returned, striking 59 elderly people in a Miami nursing home in late January; five of them have died. But no vaccine produced solely to protect against A/Victoria was on hand; all that was available had been mixed with the swine flu vaccine at the height of the swine flu scare...