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In the summer of 1907, Edward Wyllis Scripps, the eccentric Ohio newspaper entrepreneur, strung together a ragtag assortment of reporters, telegraph operators and rewrite men to form the United Press. Though the fledgling wire service had just $500 in working capital, Scripps gave it a difficult mission: take on the...
"No one's really serious about waste disposal at sea," Bullard, a professor at Scripps Institute of Oceanography, said. Bullard said he prefers disposal of nuclear wastes on land, because of the greater control and visibility there.
Enormous quantities of CO2 have been belched into the atmosphere since the start of the Industrial Revolution. But only recently has the increase become a cause of concern. In the past 20 years, it rose almost as much as it did in the century before. These measurements, made by the...
Still, scientists are by no means certain that nature will follow their scenarios. The earth's climate is the product of such a complex mix of factors that it becomes impossibly difficult to isolate just one. For example, climatologists do not yet know the exact role of atmospheric dust...
Thomas, who this January moved his Harvard Medical School laboratory to the Scripps Clinic in La Jolla, California, said Friday he has been able to proceed with his other research, and added, "the money has always been there, we just haven't been able to use it for recombinant DNA...