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...Biology Department promptly launched a counterattack as head tutor Sye T. Plasm said of Physics, "Those weenies think they're so cool just because they study quantum mechanics. Whoop-de-friggin...

Author: By William H. Bachman, WITH WIRE DISPATCHES | Title: Physics-Bio Memo War Escalates | 4/10/1990 | See Source »

...They wouldn't understand evolution if a Drisophagulus naturally selected right in front of their eyes and Steven J. Gould himself was there to explain the process in its socio-historical context," Plasm said...

Author: By William H. Bachman, WITH WIRE DISPATCHES | Title: Physics-Bio Memo War Escalates | 4/10/1990 | See Source »

Hollis Professor of Rabbit Studies and Christian Aesthetics Peter N.D. Wolf '64 said, "I'm not really involved in the debate since I'm not really a science professor, but I agree that [Plasm] is a bonehead...

Author: By William H. Bachman, WITH WIRE DISPATCHES | Title: Physics-Bio Memo War Escalates | 4/10/1990 | See Source »

Professors from both departments offered public apologies. Plasm and Spin issued a joint statement which read: "Hey, after you get tenure, it gets kind of monotonous around here. We were just trying to liven the place...

Author: By William H. Bachman, WITH WIRE DISPATCHES | Title: Physics-Bio Memo War Escalates | 4/10/1990 | See Source »

Shortly after he took charge of the Rockefeller Foundation's wheat-improvement program in Mexico 26 years ago, a young American plant pathologist named Norman E. Borlaug began a momentous series of cross-breeding experiments. With the germ plasm of plants from four different countries, he succeeded in developing a remarkable new kind of wheat that was able to flourish in all of Mexico's widely varied growing conditions. His work quickly put Mexico on the road to self-sufficiency in wheat production. But it had an even more important result: it sowed the seeds of the Green...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Sowing a Green Revolution | 11/2/1970 | See Source »

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