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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hundreds of rugged American "sportsmen" are blazing a trail of gouged hillsides, crushed and broken vegetation, and discarded beer cans. As with racing cars and dragsters, I would like to see certain less aesthetic areas set aside for the exclusive use of such machinery. The remaining wildlands should be closed to such off-the-road vehicles before what is left of their solitude, scenic beauty and scientific value is forever lost...
History's Representatives. Unlike most people who see their work, the Bechers are not interested in preserving the industrial relics they photograph. "It is necessary that these things be destroyed when their usefulness is exhausted," says Bernhard. "This is purely economic architecture. They throw it up, they use it, they misuse it, they throw it away." But more than one historical commission has decided to preserve an old water tower or mill after the Bechers photographed it. That fact makes plant managers wary of the husband-and-wife team, whose mere interest in an obsolete object may induce local...
Researchers will go anywhere and test anything in the hope of finding medicines to use against diseases and disorders that by present methods are either difficult to treat or incurable. One of their most fortuitous finds was made in a Peoria (Ill.) market, where they scraped from an overripe cantaloupe the parent strain of mold that fathered millions of doses of penicillin. Now that most of the world's land surface has been finecombed for microbes that might yield new antibiotics, the scientists are turning to the sea. One useful drug, cephalothin (which is effective against many germs that...
...most biologically potent chemicals so far extracted from marine life are the poisons that primitive creatures use for self-protection. That does not discourage the seagoing biologists. After all, they point out, the vegetable poison curare has proved invaluable as a muscle relaxant that is used with general anesthesia for surgery. The Japanese are already using molecular modifications of marine venoms as medicines...
...intent was not really to eliminate man but to reduce the power of his pocketbook. The new feminism that underlies a soppy little fable called Thank You All Very Much derives from the praying mantis. Man-a brief biological interlude-is to be casually discarded after procreative use. A girl can have her baby and keep it in single bliss. Sufficient unto the self is the self...