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OUT AT NIGHT
SUSAN ARNOUT SMITH
For my father
Ernest Weschenfelder
who taught me to love mountains
and my mother
Florence Weschenfelder Johnson
who showed me how to move them
Rest in peace, Dad
The use of recombinant DNA could potentially alter man and his environment, for better or worse, by intention or accidentally. Therein lies the promise and danger of this new technology.
—Testimony at HEW hearings on
recombinant DNA (1978)
All the predators come out at night.
—TOUR GUIDE, Palm Springs wind farm
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