compared with a 42 percent Carter vote among other professionals. Academics are also more likely to approve of premarital sex (62 per- cent) and to favor reductions in military spending (46 percent). They are more likely than leaders of feminist groups, civil-rights organiza- tions, students, and newspaper and television reporters to advocate ceilings on personal income.
However, a sizeable majority of professors (65 percent) indicated con- fidence in bankers and financiers. More than two-thirds...
those in the natural sciences, business administration, and engineering. Professors of agriculture are farthest to the right.
PRESS & TELEVISION
"The Elite Press, the Global System, and Foreign News Attention" Andrew K. Sernrnel, in International Interactions (vol. 3, no. 4, 1977), 42 William IV St., London WC2N 4DF, England.
Major American newspapers are fond of advertising their worldwide coverage of the news. But one scholar's study of the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Mia...
the Miami Herald of Latin America and the Caribbean-an emphasis that appeals to Miami's large Spanish- speaking population.
All nations are not equally important to Americans or to each other, the author concedes. But reliance on occasional "fuzzy snapshots" of events in most countries, he argues, is likely to lead to pervasive igno- rance among the American public of the "scope and novelty" of changes occurring throughout the world.
"Away from Accommodation: Radical
Editors...
subscriptions only, ridiculed Washing- ton's "soulless" materialism. Du Bois's philosophy was simple: "If you are going to take up the wrongs of your race, then you must depend for support absolutely upon your race."
Du Bois's success, the authors conclude, spurred the establishment in 1911 of Crisis convincing the rest of the NAACP leadership that a black journal could attract and retain a large readership while remain- ing independent of white financing or influence.
"Do...
Yirmiahu Yovel, in Cot*~n~ettfurv
(Nov. 1977), 165 E. 56th St., New ~oik,'N.Y. 10022.
In 1656, Amsterdam's Jewish Council of Elders excommunicated a 24-year-old member of their community. His offense: He had proclaimed his view that the Bible was full of contradictions; that the laws of the Torah were arbitrary; that nature and God were one; and that knowl- edge of nature was therefore knowledge of God. [Jndaunted, the youth, Benedict Spinoza (1637-77)) went on to formulate one of the most im-...
many Jews of later generations. "Perhaps we can see in him," writes Yovel, "the first 'secular Jew' at a time when this category did not exist." There is no longer one norm of Jewish existence, he adds, no single con~pulsory model: Judaism today is determined the way Jews live it.
"Religion and the American Future" by Peter L. Berger, in New Oxford Review (Nov. 19771, 6013 Lawton Ave., Oakland, Calif. 94618.
The current "orgiastic self-denigration" of American...
many Jews of later generations. "Perhaps we can see in him," writes Yovel, "the first 'secular Jew' at a time when this category did not exist." There is no longer one norm of Jewish existence, he adds, no single con~pulsory model: Judaism today is determined the way Jews live it.
"Religion and the American Future" by Peter L. Berger, in New Oxford Review (Nov. 19771, 6013 Lawton Ave., Oakland, Calif. 94618.
The current "orgiastic self-denigration" of American...
Mar-
The Cha~zging tin M. Kaplan and Robert G. Webster, in
Face of Flu Scientific American (Dec. 1977), 415
Madison Ave., New York, N.Y. 10017.
Influenza was reported Hippocrates in Greece as early as 412 B.C. In 1918-19, it reached pandemic proportions in Europe, Asia, and America, killing 20 to 40 million people. Until recently, however, little was known about the disease.
The influenza virus was isolated in pigs during the 1920s, in humans a decade later. Subsequently, the influenza A virus,...
an influenza virion (right), the body forms antibodies to prevent the hemagglutinin spike from combining with red blood cells. But rearrangement of ihe RNA, or genetic infonna- tion (red), can change the composition of the hemagglutinin, rendering antibodies ineffective and permitting reinfection.
tion. Since the influenza virus is continually changing, the human body's resistance to one strain may not be effective in resisting a de- viant strain appearing months later.
The authors' conclusions:...
furthering scholasticism (concerned with applying Aristotle's philosophy to the tenets of Christianity) rather than original inquiry.
"Emotional Causes of Sudden Death" Joel E. Din~sdale.in The American Journal of Psychiatry (Dec. 1977), 1700 18th St., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20009.
A 71-year-old woman arrived by ambulance at a hospital emergency room with her stricken 61-year-old sister, who was pronounced dead on arrival. The elder woman collapsed at the news, developed a heart attack,...