pro-Palestinian groups protesting Israeli conduct of the war. The title of an August 5 front-page editorial even de- scribed the invasion as "An Enterprise Which Dares Not Speak Its Name." Many of Le Monde's editors were "clearly outraged" the Israeli bombings, although they made some effort to balance the news by offering background to the Arab-Israeli conflict and by paying "con- siderable attention to Israeli government views and the feelings of French Jews."
The...
the rule "no enemies on the Left," and was also active in the opposition to Sen. Joseph McCarthy (R.-Wis.), be- cause his "lies and indiscriminate accusations" were undermining ra- tional criticism of communism.
A staunch pragmatist in the tradition of American philosopher John Dewey (1859-1952), Hook held that scientific methods (i.e., inquiry and evaluation) should be applied to questions of value and social policies. Ideas, beliefs, and moral judgments must be tested analysis...
the rule "no enemies on the Left," and was also active in the opposition to Sen. Joseph McCarthy (R.-Wis.), be- cause his "lies and indiscriminate accusations" were undermining ra- tional criticism of communism.
A staunch pragmatist in the tradition of American philosopher John Dewey (1859-1952), Hook held that scientific methods (i.e., inquiry and evaluation) should be applied to questions of value and social policies. Ideas, beliefs, and moral judgments must be tested analysis...
modern life-rapidly disappearing, but the an- thropologists are virtually stepping on each other's toes to study those that remain. Whether in the highlands of New Guinea or Amazonia, re- searchers find "not just 'natives' and mud huts, but economists calcu- lating Gini coefficients, political scientists scaling attitudes . . . sociologists counting houses."
Such changes have outmoded the old dirt-under-the-toenails ap- proach to the study of foreign cultures that initially attracted...
Howard Jay
Chizeck, in Technology Review (JulyThe Injured 1985), Massachusetts Institute of Tech-
nology, Bldg. 10, Cambridge, Mass.
02139.
Medical technology for victims of spinal injuries falls into two camps: what is available today, and what is on the drawing board.
Unfortunately, the media have blurred that distinction, offering in- formation to some but false hopes to others, argues Chizeck, who teaches biomedical engineering at Case Western Reserve University. The future is bright, he...
Howard Jay
Chizeck, in Technology Review (JulyThe Injured 1985), Massachusetts Institute of Tech-
nology, Bldg. 10, Cambridge, Mass.
02139.
Medical technology for victims of spinal injuries falls into two camps: what is available today, and what is on the drawing board.
Unfortunately, the media have blurred that distinction, offering in- formation to some but false hopes to others, argues Chizeck, who teaches biomedical engineering at Case Western Reserve University. The future is bright, he...
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Health, Education, and Welfare issued a report on in vitro fertilization, but the panel never dealt with the freezing of embryos. In 1982, then Rep. Albert Gore, Jr., (D.-Tenn.) headed a House subcommittee that held hearings on frozen embryo research but came to no conclusions. Consequently, note Grobstein and his fellow researchers at the Univer- sity of California, no firm federal guidelines were ever set. In addition, "a de facto ban on federal support...
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Originally, Darwin (1809-82) explained evolution through natural selection, or "survival of the fittest." Animals randomly mate and pass on heritable characteristics. Those well suited to their environment survive; others die off.
But during the 1930s, a revised "synthetic" theory of evolution slowly displaced the original doctrine. Biologists affirmed Darwin's be- lief that current species share common ancestors but disagreed with the...
the U.S. Geological Survey. (Even these data are trouble- some, since samplers for the Survey are not designed to measure pollu- tion.) And industrial water pollution, the most dangerous, is monitored only the polluters themselves, who must report their own violations. The National Resources Defense Council found that 90 percent of 2,200 industries studied had exceeded their pollution quotas.
Stanfield suggests that centralized pollution monitoring would be well worth the money. In the words of...
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Other scientists disagree. Arnold Schecter, an epidemiologist at the State University of New York, argues that the government's studies lacked adequate controls and failed to quantify the amount of TCDD (the most toxic compound in dioxin) to which the subjects were ex- posed. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) classifies TCDD as a "probable human carcinogen." In addition, many cancers have 15-year latency periods; the carcinogenic effects m...