Stephen Educating Snails S. Hall, in Science 85 (May 1985), 1101
Vermont Ave. N.W., 10th Floor, Washing-
ton, D.C. 20005.
Snails are a delicacy to some, a slimy nuisance to others. But to two American scientists, these mollusks are providing tantalizing clues to the mystery of human thought and memory.
Daniel Alkon, of the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass., has devoted most of his career to studying snails, specifically the genus Hermissenda, writes Hall, a Science 85contributing...
John P. McKelvey, in
And Scientists TechnologyReview (Jan. 1985), Massachu- setts Institute of Technology, Bldg. lo., Cambridge, Mass. 02139.
Scientists and technologists have lived off each other's creations for centuries. But scientists always seem to get the credit. McKelvey, a physics professor at Clemson University, maintains that technologists have unfairly been pushed to the back seat, that they have furthered scientific progress no less than have scientists themselves.
Hans Christian...
boiling it in water and distilling the oils. He called the liquid "allyl" (from Allium sativum, garlic's botanical name). One hundred years later, Chester J. Cavallito in Rensselaer, N.Y., soaked garlic in ethyl alcohol and came up with a colorless, smelly liquid called allicin. Fur- ther experiments showed that allicin killed certain fungi and bacte- ria, sometimes faster than penicillin.
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Wil- Confessions of liam D. Ruckelshaus, in Issues in Science and Technology (Spring 1985), 2101 Con-An EPA Man stitution Ave. N.W., Washington, D.C.
"Think globally and act locally," scientist Rene Dubos once advised environmentalists. Ruckelshaus, who headed the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from 1970 to 1973 and again from 1983 to 1985, wholeheartedly agrees.
At first, Ruckelshaus recalls, the EPA aimed, grandly, to harmonize industry with nature. Congress created the...
weighing the costs and benefits of regulations for industry, workers, and the public. These cold, analytical methods dismay many Ameri- cans. Industry leaders and some scientists, on the other hand, argue that scientific knowledge has not advanced far enough to make firm judgments possible.
Ruckelshaus would alter the EPA's role, leaving it with the power to set broad national pollution standards that would be applied local government. That would reduce the dangers of excessive, abstract regulations...
the absence of radioactive iodine in the en- vironment surrounding the stricken nuclear plant. Previous meltdown models predicted the formation of an iodine vapor cloud, which is po- tentially fatal and difficult to contain. However, as Norman notes, "it is now widely accepted within the nuclear research community that the chemistry underlying the earlier predictions was faulty."
Studies of TMI the American Nuclear Society (ANS), the Industry Degraded Core Rule-making Program (IDCOR),...
Jef- Fs Scott Redeemed frey Hart, in Comnzentary (Mar. 19851,
165 East 56th St., New York, N.Y. 10022.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, of Great Gatsfame, died in Hollywood in 1940; at age 44, he was an alcoholic with a fading literary reputation. Hart, who teaches English at Dartmouth College, thinks a reassessment of the au- thor's last years is overdue.
Hart sees signs of a special maturity in Fitzgerald's later work, in- cluding the screenplays he wrote for Hollywood at the end of his career. His work...
Jef- Fs Scott Redeemed frey Hart, in Comnzentary (Mar. 19851,
165 East 56th St., New York, N.Y. 10022.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, of Great Gatsfame, died in Hollywood in 1940; at age 44, he was an alcoholic with a fading literary reputation. Hart, who teaches English at Dartmouth College, thinks a reassessment of the au- thor's last years is overdue.
Hart sees signs of a special maturity in Fitzgerald's later work, in- cluding the screenplays he wrote for Hollywood at the end of his career. His work...
the gas fire, eating sardines from the tin with a shoe horn." Waugh's humor, Ep- stein says, "would not have been possible if not dressed out in his care- fully measured prose . . . the straight face from behind which the smashing punch lines are delivered."
The English writer's personal life was far from carefully measured. A convert to Catholicism at age 27 (after his first wife left him for another man), later a heavy drinker and drug user, Waugh was renowned for his social brutality....
Paul H. Kreis-
r. Gandhi's berg, in Foreign Affairs (Spring 1985), 58 India East 68th St.,New York, N.Y. 10021.
Only hours after the assassination of Indira Gandhi on October 31, 1984, power passed to her son, Rajiv, now Prime Minister. Kreisberg, director of studies at New York's Council on Foreign Relations, believes that the change in leadership promises to brighten India's future and ease tensions between India and other nations.
Rajiv Gandhi's insistence on calm and unity during the turmoil...