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The well-known jibe that environmental protection is a self-indulgence of the rich is particularly apposite on the international plane. But the corollary is more foreign aid.
Erwin Schrödinger's book What is Life?, published in 1944, drew several of the brightest physicists into molecular biology. But the book's chief merit lies in its rescue from obscurity and popularization of an earlier paper by Timoféeff, Zimmer and Delbrück.