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David Baltimore, 36, a microbiologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is noted both for discoveries made in his lab and policies articulated outside of it. His co-discovery in 1970 of the enzyme reverse transcriptase helped scientists in their search for a cancer-causing virus and led him to synthesize for the first time a portion of a mammalian gene, thus bringing closer the prospect of genetic engineering and control over life. Fearful about what that might mean, the M.l.T.-educated Baltimore is now spearheading efforts to protect the public from "bio-hazards." "Science-fiction fantasies may come true...
Died. Wolf V. Vishniac, 51, a microbiologist who designed one of the devices to be used to search for life on Mars during the U.S.'s first soft-landing attempt in 1975-76; after falling down an ice slope during an expedition to Antarctica. Vishniac's "Wolf trap" is the size of a cigar box and contains adhesive-coated strings that will be dragged through Mars' arid soil, then reeled into the container, where any life forms stuck to the strings will be detected. -Died. Marian Young Taylor, 65, known to radio listeners for 32 years...
...defender was René Dubos, distinguished Rockefeller University microbiologist, elder statesman of science and author (A God Within, So Human an Animal). In a major address entitled "Humanizing the Earth," Dubos, 71, disputed one of the fashionable credos of contemporary environmentalists: that any human interference with nature is in itself undesirable. In other words, Dubos flatly disagreed with Barry Commoner's so-called fourth law of ecology: "Nature knows best." On the contrary, Dubos insisted, nature does not always know best. It is, in fact, often "shortsighted." To prove his point, he cited not only such major natural calamities...
Roszak argues from Apocalypse. He might well ask: What other choice does man have today? At first glance, René Dubos, a distinguished microbiologist and Pulitzer prizewinner (So Human an Animal), seems to agree. Like a proper New Arcadian, he writes: "Our salvation depends upon our ability to create a religion of nature and a substitute for magic." The very title of his book, A God Within, is his translation of enthusiasm ("one of the most beautiful words in any language...
...conferees fretted continually about the consequences of industrialization. Microbiologist Rene Dubos, generally the most optimistic of the U.S.'s major ecologists, said that modern farmers are putting more energy into the soil (in the form of mechanization, fertilizers and pesticides) than they are taking out in the form of bumper crops. By 1987, Dubos predicted, such practices will cause enough pollution and depletion of resources to limit further growth. He offered the odd analogy of the medieval church builders in France, who decided to end their rivalry after the highest cathedral, in Beauvais, twice collapsed. "Every technology...