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...between man and man and a civilized respect for contracts. Some clergymen are a bit embarrassed that in a national rating of 42 types of credit risks, the clergy ranked a mediocre 17th (best risks are business executives, worst are farm laborers). Union Theological Seminary's Professor Roger Shinn says that the key to the moral issue is whether credit enhances or restricts personal freedom. "Debt is wrong if it overburdens and blocks a person and destroys his freedom to act," says Shinn. "It is also wrong if it is used for self-indulgence or without intent...
Prophets & Persecutions. Such churchly radicalism has the best kind of historical precedent. "Christ was a revolutionary figure," insists Dr. Roger Shinn of Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary. "He was as unconcerned with institutions as anyone could be." Time and again through its turbulent, long history, Christianity has heard the voice of its own angry prophets denouncing the established disorder-St. Paul complaining about the immoralities of Corinth, St. Francis rejecting the pomp of the medieval church, Luther fulminating at the luxury of Rome, Kierkegaard howling vainly against the placid orthodoxy of Denmark's Lutheranism. Time and again, also...
...Monitor. Somehow, radioactive mud seemed to be getting into instrument boxes. But how? Insect Ecologist Alvin Fleetwood Shinn was called in to investigate. Dressed in white coveralls, rubber boots and gloves, and carrying a radiation survey meter, he prowled the forbidden woods and soon identified the culprits. Hidden among the monitor instruments, sometimes even plastered on vacuum tubes, were dozens of mud nests built by wasps...
Dauber's Difference. Insects can stand more radiation than humans, but they are not immune. Shinn put dosimeters in the nests and found that young wasps sometimes got 25 times as much radiation as a human can stand. The dose apparently reduced by 40% the number of wasps that developed success fully into adults. Of the two kinds of wasps that built nests among the instruments, Shinn noticed that only the yellow-and-black daubers used radioactive mud. The nests of the closely related pipe-organ daubers were always as free of radioactivity as if nuclear phys...
...Shinn does not yet have the answer, but he is running elaborate tests to find out. It may be that the cautious pipe-organ wasps are repelled by the faint odor of ozone and other gases that rise from radioactive mud. More fascinating is the possibility that among the wasps of Oak Ridge, which have been exposed to radioactive wastes for a longer period than any others, the pipe-organ daub ers may have evolved a special sense that detects radioactivity and enables them to build nests that will not be lethal to their sensitive young...