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Thus Paul Ehrlich, an accomplished researcher in entomology (the study of insects), has become well known by speaking and writing about the population explosion. Biologist Barry Commoner is one of the leading spokesmen for the environmental movement. Linus Pauling, who won a Nobel Prize for his explanation of the nature of chemical bonds, is famous as a peace activist and, more recently, for promoting vitamin C as a cure for the common cold. James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of life's master molecule DNA became a public figure only after the publication of his book...
Some of the teachers listed with the exchange work in the city's public schools, but many are people who simply want to share their expertise and enthusiasm. For example, Charles Spielman, an aquatic biologist for Chicago's metropolitan sanitary district, teaches clowning; David Porter, who is blind and is studying for a master's degree in social work, teaches several different stringed instruments. Some teach without pay; others negotiate a fee with their students. Grace Jaffe, a retired sociology professor, teaches French to four teenagers, who tend her vegetable garden in return. Says she: "The young...
Died. Sir Julian Huxley, 87, British biologist, older brother of the late novelist Aldous Huxley and grandson of Victorian Scientist-Sage Thomas Huxley; in London. Educated at Eton and Oxford, Sir Julian was an atheist and self-styled "humanist" and an astonishingly prolific writer; his 48 major books range from candid autobiography (Memories) to probing studies of evolution. As UNESCO's first director-general (1946-48), he gained widespread attention as a doomsday prophet, warning against such dangers as the population explosion and man's neglect of his environment...
...only one documented case of an alligator actually killing a person (last year in Florida). But the creatures have needle-sharp teeth, and the big ones can crunch a leg or arm off a grown man. Though the gator still tends to avoid people, warns Ted Joanen, a biologist with Louisiana's Wild Life and Fisheries Commission, "he domesticates quite easily and loses his fear of people...
...remains, Sybille Bedford's long, affectionately detailed biography notwithstanding. A man whose 69 years spanned and made the most of a number of literary and intellectual styles, Huxley simply does not fit comfortably into critical readymades. He was born to England's intellectual aristocracy. Thomas Henry Huxley, the great biologist and proselytizer of Darwin's theories of evolution, was his grandfather. Poet Matthew Arnold, the apostle of sweetness and light, was his mother's uncle. On one side, the traditions of scientific humanism; on the other, the melancholy ironist and culture critic who foreshadowed his grandnephew's own tussles with...