New York Times Obituary on Richard C. Lewontin: RIP (Professor Francis A. Boyle)

 Professor Francis A. Boyle:

I write with a most  heavy heart and a great deal of personal sadness at the death of my longtime Teacher, Mentor and Friend Richard C. Lewontin, the Alexander Agassiz Research Professor of Biology and Zoology at Harvard. 

I started studying with Dick at the University of Chicago  on the first Monday of the first full week of January 1970 because of his strident opposition to the Vietnam War, which I already opposed as a mid-teenager. I figured Dick would have something to teach me. He certainly did—for the rest of my life .The courage, integrity and principles of Dick Lewontin have always  inspired and motivated  me from the very beginning of my career in higher education. I shall always fondly regret that I could not continue working with him. 

The last time I spoke to Dick was to wish him a happy 85^th Birthday. He was still working  in his Lab at the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 

The picture in  today’s New York Times is exactly the way Dick looked when he started teaching me when I was 19. It brings back so many fine memories of his life and  career so well spent to make the World a better place. 

Humanity and Science have been impoverished by Dick’s death. And I also note with  sadness the recent passing of his beautiful wife and the  love of his life Mary Jane. RIP.

Francis A. Boyle

Professor of Law

Author of the U.S. domestic implementing legislation for the Biological Weapons Convention, known as the Biological Weapons Anti-terrorism Act of 1989, that was passed unanimously by both Houses of the United States Congress and signed into law by President George Bush Sr.

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Subject: FW: Richard C Lewontin: Book on Biowarfare,Terrorism & Congress yet again / Boyle

 

Biowarfare and Terrorism / Francis A. Boyle

Dedication

In Honor of Richard C. Lewontin:

Teacher, Mentor, and Friend

I wish to express my deep gratitude to my Common

Core Biology Sequence teachers at the University of Chicago

during the 1969-1970 academic year, whose superb

instruction made the work described herein possible: Lorna

Strauss (Biochemistry); Richard C. Lewontin (Population

Biology); and Bernard Strauss (Genetics). In particular, the

courage, integrity, and principles of Dick Lewontin have always

been a tremendous source of inspiration and guidance to me

from the very outset of my career in higher education. I shall

always fondly regret that I could not continue working with

him. So I dedicate this book to Richard C. Lewontin, Alexander

Agassiz Professor of Zoology and Biology at Harvard University,

now Emeritus: Stolat! Nevertheless, I alone am solely

responsible for its contents.

F.A.B.
 

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	"Only hours after sensors in a U.S. Senate office building detected a nerve agent, key Senators suddenly reversed direction and announced a capitulation to the White House's demands on the renewal and expansion of the Patriot Act. " George Washington's Blog, February 10, 2006. BIOWARFARE AND TERRORISM by Francis A. Boyle Foreword by Jonathan King This book outlines how and why the United States government initiated, sustained and then dramatically expanded an illegal biological arms buildup. Most significantly, U.S. expert Francis A. Boyle reveals how the new billion-dollar U.S. Chemical and Biological Defense Program has been reorientated to accord with the Neo-Conservative pre-emptive strike agenda--this time by biological and chemical warfare.   Linking U.S. biowarfare development to the October 2001 anthrax attack on Congress--the most significant political attack on the constitutional functioning of democracy in the United States in recent history--Boyle sheds new light on the motives for the attack, the media black hole of silence into which it has fallen, and why the FBI may never apprehend the perpetrators of this seminal crime of the 21st century. Biowarfare and Terrorism should raise public concern at what the vastly expanded US biowarfare research and purported civilian preparedness programs hold in store for America. Will the American people allow the Bush administration to pursue these programs, despite their incitement to a global biowarfare arms race, and the risk of accidents and reprisals? This book provides a unique tool for understanding the magnitude of the danger, and for countering it. ABOUT FRANCIS A. BOYLE Francis A. Boyle is a leading American professor, practitioner and advocate of international law. He was responsible for drafting the Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989, the American implementing legislation for the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention. He served on the Board of Directors of Amnesty International (1988-1992), and represented Bosnia- Herzegovina at the World Court. Professor Boyle teaches international law at the University of Illinois, Champaign. He holds a Doctor of Law Magna Cum Laude as well as a Ph.D. in Political Science, both from Harvard University JONATHAN KING is Professor of Molecular Biology at MIT and an authority on the genes and proteins of micro-organisms. Prof. King was a founder of the Council for Responsible Genetics and former Co-Chair of its Committee on the Military Use of Biological Research. CLARITY PRESS, INC. http://www.claritypress.com ISBN: 0-932863-46-9 Paper $12.95 2005 Biowarfare Bulletin, Updates, Table of contents, synopsis and reviews available at: http://www.boyle-biowarfareandterrorism.info Available from: SCB Distributors,15608 South New Century Drive, Gardena, CA. 90248 victor@scbdistributors.com Toll-free 800-729-6423* Tel: 1-310-532-9400 * Fax: 1-310-532-7001 or through www.amazon.com or Ingram or Fernwood Books in Canada. Lindsay@fernwoodbooks.ca     Francis A. Boyle Law Building 504 E. Pennsylvania Ave. Champaign IL 61820 USA Phone: 217-333-7954 Fax: 217-244-1478 (personal comments only)