experience to be a powerful astringent, and very efficacious in curing anguish and intermitting disorders," wrote the Reverend Edmund Stone to the presi- dent of the British Royal Society in 1763. Although he did not know it, Stone had discovered salicylic acid-better known today as aspirin.
Weissmann, a professor of medicine at New York University, reports that "Ameri- cans consume 16,000 tons of aspirin tab- lets a year-80 million pills-and spend about $2 billion a year for nonprescription...
a billion biochemical pathways that we share with years of evolution."
The Human Machine "A Chip YOU Can Talk TO" Rachel Nowak, in Johns Hopkins Magazine (Dec. 1990), 212 Whitehead Hall, Johns Hopkins Univ., 34th and Charles Streets, Baltimore, Md. 21218.
If scientists at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory have their way, it won't be long before telephones dial numbers on spoken request, tape recorders transcribe conversations directly onto paper, and cars drive themselves. N...
a billion biochemical pathways that we share with years of evolution."
The Human Machine "A Chip YOU Can Talk TO" Rachel Nowak, in Johns Hopkins Magazine (Dec. 1990), 212 Whitehead Hall, Johns Hopkins Univ., 34th and Charles Streets, Baltimore, Md. 21218.
If scientists at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory have their way, it won't be long before telephones dial numbers on spoken request, tape recorders transcribe conversations directly onto paper, and cars drive themselves. N...
Bruce N. Ames and Lois Swirsky Gold, and "Expo-
sure to Certain Pesticides May Pose Real Carcinogenic Risk"
and "Arguments That Discredit Animal Studies Lack Scientific
Support" James E. Huff and Joseph K. Haseman, in Chemi-
cal & Engineering News (Jan. 7, 1991), American Chemical So-
ciety, 1155 16th St. N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036.
In her influential 1962 book Silent Spring, naturalist Rachel Carson warned of the dangers to the environment, and ulti- mately to h...
Warren T. Brookes, in The Quill (Jan.-Feb. 1991), Society of Professional Journalists, P.O. Box 77, Greencastle, Ind. 46135-0077.
When McDonald's Corp. agreed last fall to abort its program to recycle the polysty- rene cartons it uses for its hamburgers, and to go back instead to using coated pa- perboard, some environmentalists and journalists hailed the decision as "good news for the planet." In reality, says Brookes, a Washington-based editorial writer for the Detroit News, the hamburger...
Warren T. Brookes, in The Quill (Jan.-Feb. 1991), Society of Professional Journalists, P.O. Box 77, Greencastle, Ind. 46135-0077.
When McDonald's Corp. agreed last fall to abort its program to recycle the polysty- rene cartons it uses for its hamburgers, and to go back instead to using coated pa- perboard, some environmentalists and journalists hailed the decision as "good news for the planet." In reality, says Brookes, a Washington-based editorial writer for the Detroit News, the hamburger...
punishing its desecration, for in doing so we dilute the freedom that this cherished emblem represents," said then-Justice William J. Brennan, Jr.
That 1989 decision (reaffirmed last year when the court struck down a new federal law making it a crime to bum or deface the American flag) was "the end result of a cultural revolution" that began in the mid- 1950s, according to Boime, an art histo- rian at the University of California at Los Angeles. Jasper Johns fired the revolu- tion's...
fruit trees, flower beds, vases, statues, and marble seats." Some utopian authors were pro-voked Bellamy's work. British Marxist William Morris pronounced Looking Back- ward "a horrible cockney dreamH-and then proceeded to set down, in News From Nowhere (1890), his own vision of the fu- ture. an arcadian communitv of artisans and 'craftsmen.
Bellamy's age, Collins writes, "was the last in which futuristic novels would take such an optimistic bent." Although the 20th century...
Charles A. Joiner, in Asian Survey (Nov. 1990), Univ. of Calif., Room 408, 6701 San Pablo Ave., Oakland, Calif. 94720.
Communist leaders in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe have taken two big steps toward revitalizing their moribund economies. One is to move toward free markets, the other is to surrender the com- munist monopoly of political power. Many analysts believe that both steps are essen- tial for the nations' economic health. But not everyone has agreed. Kim I1 Sung in North Korea a...
Charles A. Joiner, in Asian Survey (Nov. 1990), Univ. of Calif., Room 408, 6701 San Pablo Ave., Oakland, Calif. 94720.
Communist leaders in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe have taken two big steps toward revitalizing their moribund economies. One is to move toward free markets, the other is to surrender the com- munist monopoly of political power. Many analysts believe that both steps are essen- tial for the nations' economic health. But not everyone has agreed. Kim I1 Sung in North Korea a...