diverting so much attention to living longer, we may sacrifice 'our chance for living as well as we can and for satisfying to some ex- tent. . . our deepest longings for what is best."
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
"Chasing Particles of Unity" MichaelAfter E =me2 Gold, in Science 83 (Mar. 1983), P.O. Box
10790, Des Moines, Iowa 50340.
Physicists have identified the particles responsible for three of nature's four basic forces-electromagnetism, gravity, and the so-called "strong for...
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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
ent particles and forces are only "different faces of a single, more funda- mental property of naturen-the effects have been awesome. Television and radar sprang from Heinrich Hertz's (1857-94) work on the relation- ship between electricity and magnetism; Albert Einstein's famous E=mc2 formula linking energy to matter in 1905 led to nuclear power -and the atomic bomb.
"Interferon and the Cure of Cancer" byInterferon's Sandra Panem and Jan Viltek, i...
Bruce Piasecki, in The Washington Monthly (Jan.Toxic Wastes 1983), 2712 Ontario Rd. N.W., Washing- ton, D.C. 20009.
After the 1978 Love Canal scandal in Niagara Falls, New York, federal and state agencies hastened to tighten regulation of toxic-waste dumps. Yet some Western European countries have discovered that detoxifying chemical by-products makes more sense than dumping them.
American industry generates some 77 billion pounds of toxic waste -sulfuric acid, mercury, cyanide-every year. Eighty...
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RESOURCES & ENVIRONMENT
"The Future of American Agriculture" by
American Farms Sandra S. Batie and Robert G. Healy, in Scientific American (Feb. 1983), 414 Madi-
Face the Future son Ave., New York, N.Y. 10017.
After a century of growing productivity, the nation's farmers face seri-
ous problems. Yet, Batie and Healy, economists at Virginia Polytechnic
Institute and the Conservation Foundation, respectively, claim that no
U.S. agricultural crisis looms on the horizon.
Fears t...
50 to 90 percent, and is already used on about 25 percent of U.S. farmland. Higher costs, farmers' habits, and subsidies for certain crops are among the factors slowing wider implementation of such techniques.
A greater imponderable is the possibility of a sudden climate change. Nevertheless, the authors argue, Washington policy-makers should do more to limit such long-term risks. Among their options: encouraging wider dispersal of farms and diversification of crops in one-crop re- gions, ending...
50 percent, and Canada, which is
searching for successors to its Alberta oil fields.
The possibility of an OPEC price collapse or a sudden breakthrough in synthetic fuel production makes investing in Arctic oil a financial gamble. But to oilmen searching for energy supplies outside of OPEC's grasp, it seems a risk worth taking.
"American Naturalism and the Problem uccess spoil of Sincerity" Christopher I.Wilson, in American Literature (Dec. 1982), Duke The Naturalists? Univ. Press,...
50 percent, and Canada, which is
searching for successors to its Alberta oil fields.
The possibility of an OPEC price collapse or a sudden breakthrough in synthetic fuel production makes investing in Arctic oil a financial gamble. But to oilmen searching for energy supplies outside of OPEC's grasp, it seems a risk worth taking.
"American Naturalism and the Problem uccess spoil of Sincerity" Christopher I.Wilson, in American Literature (Dec. 1982), Duke The Naturalists? Univ. Press,...
Roger Copeland, in
Partisan Review (NO. 1, 1983), BostonFor Dance Univ., 121 Bav State Rd., Boston, Mass.
02215.
Performers and choreographers of modern dance-Martha Graham, for example-have long stressed the "primitive" elements of their art. But a new generation is abandoning primitivism, and possibly dance itself.
So says Copeland, an Oberlin College theater teacher. Primitivism, he notes, arose around the turn of the century in reaction to the "neu- rotic character" of...
Hilton Kramer, in The New Crite-
rion (Nov. 1982), Foundation for Cultural
Review, 460 Park Ave., New York, N.Y.
10022.
Neo-Expressionism is only one of many new styles that has swept the art world since the 1960s. Nevertheless, asserts Kramer, editor of the New Criterion, it signals a real change in the direction of art.
The previous major innovation in painting occurred during the early 1960s, when Andy Warhol's Pop art displaced the postwar Abstract Ex- pressionism of such artists as Jackson...
E. L. Kircizizer's Der Theosoph (far left). An example of 1960s Pop art is Roy Lichteizstein's Girl With Ball. Mimmo Paladino's Porta is a Neo-Expressionist work.
Kramer writes. "The mystical, the erotic, and the hallucinatory were once again made welcon~e in painting." Not only did the new painters reinject emotion into art, they reversed a 100-year trend towards "de- pletion" and sparer images in painting.
The Neo-Expressionists are not the only painters who are breaking...