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...takes on real drama. Recently, when LOGICS operators learned that an Exxon tanker was due to call at the Colombian port of Buenaventura, where marauders in small boats are common at night, a message was quickly dispatched to the ship's master: "Beware bandits and double watch. Raise accommodation ladder and lay out high-pressure hoses...
Judson wisely avoids such hyperbole. Even a generation after molecular biology's birth, its midwives are usually experimenting with nothing higher on the evolutionary ladder than the intestinal bacterium Escherichia coli. Judson's characters are not primarily interested in great practical payoffs but in a grand intellectual quest: solving puzzles, under standing nature rather than dominating it. The game is science for science's sake...
...There were only four black Ph.D.s in economics last year," Martin L. Kilson, professor of Government said. "Getting a Ph.D. instead of going to law school and climbing the social ladder can be a traumatic experience," he added...
Maryland features a solid trio of doubles teams and a good deal of depth in the middle of their six-man singles ladder, but Harvard matches up well in both categories. The Crimson racquetmen have two factors on their side going into the match--momentum from a 5-4 early April win over another ACC team, Virginia, and the fact that Maryland tennis players have a history of squandering their talent...
Senior Dick Arnos rounds out the field of singles player. Arnos is a member of the "Ohio Connection," which includes Shaw and newcomer Bridgeland, who has settled into the ladder right behind Arnos and right above Alec Seaver and Greg Kirsch...