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...down, but the discovery of cancer in July 1982 forced him to curtail his hectic pace. Nevertheless, throughout his year-and-a-half bout with cancer, he has continued to teach courses and work on his pet project, studying and cataloguing the characteristics of the Cerion, a Bahamas land snail...
...times, the Museum's collections and expertise have been called to strange tasks. During World War II, when U.S. troops were in the Pacific, an indigenous snail became a major health problem spreading schistosomiasis. Because of the collections, the museum was able to give the Army distribution patterns for the snails and tell the soldiers where dangerous areas existed Eventually a graduate student from the museum joined the soldiers in scouting streams ahead of time, collecting the snails and warning the troops where to avoid the snail. Turner says...
Likewise, deterrence, to which Eban sees no other alternative of comparable effectiveness, has solidified over four decades through snail's pace progress. Observers criticizing achievements such as test ban treaties and miniscule reductions of warheads because of the distance still remaining towards the goal of a nuclear-free world overlook, in Eban's eyes, the positive aspect of any prize on this most difficult issue. He writes, "The task of statesmen is to understand what is real and concrete in the international environment and to seek the maximal chance of peace within that context...
...Lewis Thomas, 69, has built a successful second career by giving many laymen their first clear overview of the moral and even aesthetic problems that can be encountered in the laboratory. The bestselling essays in The Lives of a Cell and The Medusa and the Snail moved nimbly from the microscopic to the transcendental. Nucleoli revealed worlds of meaning; peptides hid oceans of being. Charmed by Thomas' low-key lyricism, the judges of the National Book Award granted the physician-researcher its prize for arts and letters in 1975. Somehow the doctor had put his pulse on the thumb...
...lawyer's fee, which must be paid no matter what the outcome. U.S.-style contingency agreements, under which losers pay no fee, are ethically prohibited in Japan. Finally, despite the relatively low amount of litigation, courts are often backlogged for years because trials move at a snail's pace...