Donald F. Davis,
In Detroit, 1910 in Journal of Social Hislory (Fall 1982),
Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh,
Pa. 15213.
In the 1980s, the U.S. auto industry's woes appear to be strictly a mat- ter of markets, competition, and interest rates. According to Davis, a University of Ottawa historian, the first upheaval in Detroit was caused not economics but by the snobbery of some auto-makers.
Spurred by the success of Samuel Smith's Olds Motor Works, which paid annual dividends of 105 percent...
Deborah Shapley, in Daedalus (Fall 1982),
1172 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, Mass.
02134.
Defense issues, because of their great complexity, are among the most difficult for the media to cover. But even the best newspaper and televi- sion treatments of such topics reveal serious flaws, argues Shapley, Washington editor of Nature magazine.
Thus, CBS News's widely publicized five-part series on "The Defense of the United States," aired in June 1981, suffered from TV newsmen's need to "find...
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"The Media and National Security" by
Covering Defense Deborah Shapley, in Daedalus (Fall 1982),
1172 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, Mass.
02134.
Defense issues, because of their great complexity, are among the most difficult for the media to cover. But even the best newspaper and televi- sion treatments of such topics reveal serious flaws, argues Shapley, Washington editor of Nature magazine.
Thus, CBS News's widely publicized five-part series on "The D...
the three major tele- vision networks, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and other leading newspapers, Morris argues that journalists reported "for the most part fairly and accurately and sometimes brilliantly."
While critics argue that the U.S. media credited exaggerated esti- mates of civilian losses from dubious sources, Morris says his own care- ful examination of the record shows this to be untrue. NBC reported on June 6 that civilian casualties were "unknown"; CBS's...
the bishops would be binding on indi- vidual Catholics. And while the Vatican could make such a pronounce- ment, it has avoided doing so.
One reason, says Bar, is that "although the word of God has implica- tions for Christians in their political activities, [the Church] stands above, and in fact outside, politics." While the Vatican has stressed its desire for peace, it has addressed "all regimes without exception, thus avoiding any encouragement of unilateral initiatives."...
William Ruddick and William Wilcox, in The Hus-a Patient? tines Center Report (act. 1982), 360 Broad-
way, Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y. 10706.
Technological innovations during the 1970s make it possible today for surgeons to operate on fetuses in and outside the womb. They also raise potential ethical problems for physicians, parents, and society.
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Surgeons in at least six U.S. hospitals can now perform nine different operations on fetuses, from repairing les...
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Surgeons in at least six U.S. hospitals can now perform nine different operations on fetuses, from repairing lesions to correcting nutritional problems. In one case, a fetus was removed from the uterus, treated for a urinary tract obstruction, and returned to its mother's womb.
"The fetus now begins to make serious claims for a right to nutrition, to protection, to therapy," Catholic theologian Richard McCormick ar- gued in 1982. &qu...
Percival Low-
ell, a wealthy Bostonian, to carry out the search.
A 1950 estimate the Palomar Observatory's Gerard Kuiper put
Pluto's diameter at 3,800 miles, about half that of the Earth. A 1965
experiment that measured the time Pluto took to cross a star of known
size narrowed the estimate to a maximum of 3,600 miles. When another
"occultation" took place on Easter Sunday 1980, a new measurement
technique allowed astronomers to fix the diameter at 2,500 miles-
barely larger than...
Paul Kinnucan, in Think Better High Technology (Nov.-Dec. 1982), 38 Commercial Wharf, Boston, Mass. 021 10.
During the 1960s, "smart" computers that could defeat humans in chess matches caused a short-lived sensation, but failed to meet the higher expectations of their admirers. Today, however, artificial intel- ligence (AI) is making a comeback.
The first smart computers suffered from exaggerated claims, a high failure rate, and unwieldy size. But all this has changed, thanks to the...
Michael Salt Water? Edesess, in Technology Review (Nov.-Dec. 1982), Room 10-140, Massachusetts Insti- tute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass. 02139.
In 1902, the Russian scientist A. von Kaleczinsky was surprised to find subsurface temperatures of over 185OF in Lake Medve, Transylvania (now part of Rumania). Today, researchers are capitalizing on his dis- covery to provide low-cost energy and heat in remote areas.
Salt water is the key to Lake Medve's warmth: Such "solar ponds" contain...