FredThe View from Barnes, in Washington Journalism Review The Fringe (Jan.-Feb. 1983), 2233 Wisconsin Ave.
N.W., Washington, D.C. 20007.
Spokesmen for the New Right and their left-wing opponents seldom agree on anything, but on one matter they see eye to eye: The nation's major news organizations treat them unfairly, albeit in different ways.
One complaint is more common on the Right, writes Barnes, a Balti- more Sun reporter: Reporters tend to label its spokesmen as extremists. Right-wing activists...
fits and convulsions-interpreted the faithful as a sign of the Holy Spir- it's presence-which further detracted from Wesley's image as a theolo- gian. But Wesley himself was skeptical of the value of such episodes: "I neither forward nor hinder them," he said.
In fact, says Dreyer, Wesley gave considerable thought to the nature of faith and human reason. His arguments closely paralleled those of
John Wesley's 1738 religious experience started him on the road to Methodism after 13 years...
Leon R. Kass, in The American Scholar (Spring For Death 1973), 1811 Q St. N.W., Washington, D.C. 20009.
Arresting the aging process and prolonging human life are top priori- ties of medical researchers. At first glance, such efforts seem an unqual- ified good, but Kass, a University of Chicago biologist, is troubled some of their implications.
The aging process, he says, prepares us for death. "Inasmuch as I no longer cling so hard to the good things of life when I begin to lose the use and...
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,...