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...growing world population and dwindling environmental resources will provide the most urgent international challenge of the next century, State Department Counselor Timothy E. Wirth '61 said last night in a speech in Science Center...
...growing number of people on the globe is a problem as urgent as the Cold War once was, Wirth said. The population spiral will increase the gap between the rich and poor and drain the earth's resources, he said...
...Wirth said that "perhaps the most profound" threat to "the individual and collective well-being of nations" is global environmental decline...
...next step is to understand the parasite genes and to genetically engineer malaria parasites in order to prevent it from causing disease, as in the influenza vaccine," Wirth said...
...Wirth and her colleagues reported their findings in the June 1 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences...