Word: caltech
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Palmdale and Pasadena from 1974 to 1976, a phenomenon that baffles experts. In addition, scientists are disturbed by a flurry of minor tremors, measuring up to 3 on the Richter scale, that have occurred along the fault southeast of Palmdale, since November 1976. Says Don L. Anderson, director of Caltech's seismological laboratory: "Until these recent swarms there has been very little action along this section of the San Andreas Fault. It could be significant...
Brown became president of the California Institute of Technology in 1969. He trimmed Caltech's nonacademic staff by 10%, persuaded its trustees to admit women students and strengthened its medical-science and biology programs. He also kept a hand in military and diplomatic matters as a member of the U.S. SALT negotiating team and, with Jimmy Carter, of the Trilateral Commission, an international group of private citizens interested in world affairs...
...stained glass windows of ancient cathedrals. Yet in more than a decade of searching, physicists have been unable to find quarks, the elusive particles that many believe to be the basic building blocks of matter (TIME, May 19, 1967). Indeed, even Nobel Laureate Murray Gell-Mann, of Caltech, who hypothesized quarks in 1962, had doubts that their existence could ever really be confirmed...
...multiplying, their scenario goes, it could find its way into human intestines and cause baffling diseases. Beyond any immediate danger, others say, there are vast unknowns and moral implications. Do not intervene in evolution, they warn in effect, because "it's not nice to fool Mother Nature." Caltech's biology chairman, Robert Sinsheimer, concludes: "Biologists have become, without wanting it, the custodians of great and terrible power. It is idle to pretend otherwise...
...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 the same vein, retired Columbia Biochemist Erwin Chargaff asks: "Have we the right to counteract, irreversibly, the evolutionary wisdom of millions of years in order to satisfy the ambition and the curiosity of a few scientists...