Philip Wander, in Journal of Communication
of Soap Operas (Autumn 1979), P.O. BOX 13358,Philadel-phia, Pa. 19101.
Despite their scriptwriters' focus on personal problems, television day- time soap operas make "modern life appear coherent and relatively secure," says Wander, professor of speech communication at San Jose State University.
The world of the soap opera is governed a strict moral code: "Playboys are untrustworthy"; "adultery is invariably punished"; 'divorce...
contrast, the New Testa- ment gospels are known to have been set down c. 60-1 10).
Roughly 100 years after Christ's death, a broad schism developed among Christians between the orthodox (literally, "straight thinking")
In his five-volume De-struction and Overthrow of Falsely So-called Knowledge, St. Zrenaeus, Bishop ofLyon, led the Christian Church's 2nd- century fight against the gnostic cult, branded "an abyss of madness and blasphemy."
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taking yourself as the starting point."
Some gnostics argued that God the Creator of both good and evil served a greater Divine, the "Depth." Others celebrated an Almighty who was both feminine and masculine ("She became the Mother of everything, for she existed before them all, the mother-father"). Still others argued that Christ's Crucifixion and Resurrection should be taken symbolically, not as historical events.
Orthodox leaders viewed gnostic teachings as falsehoods;...
the dogma of the Eucharist, they believed, "the accidents of the bread and wine [must be] distinct from their sub- stance." King Louis XIV, who selected Church officials within France, feared a split in the French Church-and Vatican intervention.
But attacks against Cartesians were not limited to censorship of phi- losophers and theologians. Descartes' concepts served as the founda- tion for the explanations of matter and motion put forth physicist Jacques Rohault (1620-75). To his regret,...
ElizabethWashington's Whelan. in Policy Review (Fall 1979). The ~oundation,513 C St. 'N.E.,
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Most measures federal regulators to protect workers and consumers from cancer-causing chemicals overlook obvious facts about cancer. So contends Whelan, a researcher at the Harvard School of Public Health.
The Food and Drug Administration bans any food additive that in- duces cancer in any animal species at any dose level. The Occupational Safety and Hea...
ElizabethWashington's Whelan. in Policy Review (Fall 1979). The ~oundation,513 C St. 'N.E.,
War on Cancer ~erita~'e
Washington, D.C. 20002.
Most measures federal regulators to protect workers and consumers from cancer-causing chemicals overlook obvious facts about cancer. So contends Whelan, a researcher at the Harvard School of Public Health.
The Food and Drug Administration bans any food additive that in- duces cancer in any animal species at any dose level. The Occupational Safety and Hea...
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write Zihlman, an anthropologist at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and Lowenstein, associate clinical professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. It can tell researchers if a sus- pected human ancestor walked upright or on all fours. A tooth, on the other hand, can be deceiving; the teeth of the prehistoric chalicothere, for instance, led anthropologists to believe it was an ancestor of the horse until they discovered...
body heat, it gradually reverts to screen shape and prevents blood clots from reaching the heart.
Shape-memory alloys may even help solve future energy shortages, says Schetky, a metallurgist at the In- ternational Copper Research Associa- tion. In tropical oceans and large res- ervoirs behind hydroelectric dams, alloy rods could be alternately low- ered to cold deep waters and raised to warmer surface waters. The resulting
Heated, this antenna metal contractions, he suggests, could regains its...
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tution. Within 25 million years, the Persian Gulf will disappear as a widening "Red Ocean" pushes Saudi Arabia into Iran.
Scientists disagree over how the Red Sea, now about 190 miles across at its widest point, was formed. Some argue that, because the facing coastlines fit together nicely, the Asian and African continents, once united, broke apart abruptly. Others say that the African and Arabian tectonic plates separated gradually, their edges stretching a...