stricter standards, the doubts linger.
Meanwhile, Walsh is pushing ahead with his work. At his new Health Research Institute near Chicago, he is beginning to treat delinquent boys for trace element abnormalities. No results yet.
If they are confirmed, notes Raloff, Walsh's findings would raise a host of ethical questions. Can the chemically imbalanced be held ac- countable for their crimes? Should a young child be tested for chemical hints of criminality? What if his test were positive?
"The...
1836, with the es- tablishment of the U.S. Patent Office, the screening requirement had been reinstated and the foundations of today's system were laid.
The question of what can be patented has also fallen to the courts. The peddling of "patent medicines" during the early 19th century led to a judicial ban on patents for "mischievous" creations. In 1822, a fed- eral court ruled that "mere abstractions" could not be patented. In 1978, the Supreme Court cited the 1822...
the aster and, within one minute, merges with the sperm nucleus. Almost imme- diately, the first steps toward creation of an embryo get underway.
Fertilization, the Schattens say, is "the riskiest of all biological pro- cesses." Small wonder then, that the egg has developed such aggressive mechanisms to ensure its success. No longer will it be possible to view fertilization as a solo act.
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about 1,000 from 1980. Construction site inspections, however, were up from 28,000 to 31,000.
President Reagan's OSHA may not have broken much ground, Wines notes, but it probably hasn't lost much. Since the agency was created in 1970, job-related deaths have declined slowly, but workdays lost due to injury or illness have increased. That trend has not changed.
"The Trouble with Fusion" Lawrence Fusion Energy: M. Lidsky, in Technology Review (Oct.
1983), ~oom 10-140, ~assachusetts Insti-False...
Jasia Reichardt, in Art International (July-Aug. 1983), Via Maraini, 17-A, Lugano, Switzerland (CH-6900).
Colombian artist Fernando Botero's idiosyncratic paintings of fat peo- ple have won him a measure of fame in recent years. Yet the artist's ob- session with inflated figures remains a mystery.
Since his first "fat mode" painting in the mid-1950s. Botero's work has centered on depictions of overblown "bishops, generals, tarts, aunts, and ordinary citizens" from his native...
Carl E. Schorske, in The Bulletin of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (Oct. 1983), Norton's Woods, 136 Irving St., Cambridge, Mass. 02138.
At the turn of the century, two composers who would help to revolu- tionize classical music rose to prominence on opposite sides of the At- lantic. In their backgrounds, Charles Ives (1874-1954) and Gustav Mahler (1 860-1 91 1) could hardly have been more different, writes Schorske, a Princeton historian, yet each injected a strong note of popu- lism...
Martin Ma- lia, in The New York Review of Books (Sept. 29, 1983), Subscription Service
Not Out Dept., P.O. Box 940, Farmingdale, N.Y. 11737.
Among many Westerners, the December 1981 outlawing of the independent trade union Solidarity General Wojciech Jaruzelski's Soviet-backed regime raised fears that Poland will never be Poland. A look at Solidarity in the context of the nation's history, suggests Martin Malia, a Berkeley professor of Russian history, is more encouraging.
Poland has lived under...
Martin Ma- lia, in The New York Review of Books (Sept. 29, 1983), Subscription Service
Not Out Dept., P.O. Box 940, Farmingdale, N.Y. 11737.
Among many Westerners, the December 1981 outlawing of the independent trade union Solidarity General Wojciech Jaruzelski's Soviet-backed regime raised fears that Poland will never be Poland. A look at Solidarity in the context of the nation's history, suggests Martin Malia, a Berkeley professor of Russian history, is more encouraging.
Poland has lived under...
political scientist at Nigeria's University of Ife.
Qaddafi's ideological principles, outlined in his Green Book, justify Libya's adventurism in the name of Arab-Islamic unity. He rejects capi- talism as exploitative and communism as godless, and he regards to- day's individual Arab nations as relics of Western colonialism. Many of Qaddafi's aggressive moves since coming to power in 1969-backing coup attempts and rebellions in Niger, Upper Volta, Gambia, Ghana, and, most recently, Chad-can be...
1985.
The current Prime Minister, Yasuhiro Nakasone, is not bound by
such a promise. But nobody in Japan was surprised that Nakasone's
first official visitor after he took office was Toshio Doko.
A Soviet "Is There an Energy Crisis in the Soviet
Union?" Jonathan Kamin, in East Eu-
il Squeeze? ropean Quarterly (Sept. 1983), 1200 Uni-
versity Ave., Boulder, Colo. 80309.
The Soviet Union possesses 59 percent of the world's known reserves of coal, 30 percent of all natural gas. It...