Word: speciesism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The incident began when the Coast Guard cutter Decisive ordered the Taras Shevchenko to heave to in waters about 130 miles southeast of Nantucket Island, Mass. Commander Alan B. Smith suspected that the Russian ship had been violating the U.S.'s new 200-mile fishing zone. Three Coast Guardsmen...
Late last week U.S. Attorney James Gabriel brought Gupalov into federal court in Boston, where the husky Russian captain and his ship were formally charged with fishing for prohibited species and failing to keep proper records. If found guilty, Gupalov could go to prison for up to one year and...
The concern of Caltech's Sinsheimer is partly philosophical -some might even say mystical. He fears the unpredictable consequences of breaching what he calls nature's "evolutionary barrier" between different kinds of creatures-the genetic incompatibility that in most cases prevents one species from breeding with another. In...
Science is not interested in pursuing such bizarre fantasies; the real advances are exciting enough. About five years ago, California scientists learned how to combine genes from different organisms, regardless of how low or high they are on the evolutionary scale. Though the researchers added only one or two new...
Finally, the chimeras are placed in a solution of cold calcium chloride containing normal E. coli bacteria. When the solution is suddenly heated, the membranes of the E. coli become permeable, allowing the plasmid chimeras to pass through and become part of the microbes' new genetic structure. When the...