the power plant.
Such analysis may also help in the diagnosis and treatment of dis- ease. Children with cystic fibrosis, for example, have as much as five times the normal concentrations of sodium in their hair. And victims of juvenile-onset diabetes have below-normal concentrations of chro- mium, suggesting that hair analysis might be used in screening poten- tial diabetics.
The presence or absence of certain amounts of trace elements is also related to certain learning disabilities and mental...
a "rural proletariat" living on "collec- tive and corporate farms under central bureaucratic management."
"Burning Darwin to Save Marx" Tom
Bethell, in Harper's (Dec. 1978), 1255
Portland PI., Boulder, Colo. 80321.
Ever since Charles Darwin proposed his theory of evolution more than 100 years ago, he has been attacked, more and more feebly, by religious fundamentalists. But what the literal interpreters of the Bible have been unable to dislodge from the century's...
Daniel
G. Freedman, in Human Nature (Jan. 1979), P.O. Box 10702, Des Moines, Iowa 50340.
Newborn babies of different ethnic groups exhibit remarkable differ- ences in temperament and behavior.
Freedman, a behavioral scientist at the University of Chicago, and Harvard pediatrician T. Berry Brazelton developed the Cambridge Be- havioral and Neurological Assessment Scales. These are a group of simple tests of basic human reactions that could be administered to any normal newborn in a hospital nursery....
rank^. Turner, in Isis (Sept. 1978),
Parson-N~/uYQ& Science History Publications, 156 Fifth
1830, discoveries in geology, physics, biology, and other sciences had begun to challenge traditional British theological beliefs.
These developments soon sparked bitter feuds between clergymen and scientists in late Victorian England. But the real controversy, says Turner, a Yale historian, arose from the professionalization of British science and the struggle for control of education. On one side,...
D. M. Lavigne, in Queen's Quar- Symbolism terly (Autumn 1978), Queen's University,
Kingston, Ontario, Canada, K7L3N6.
The fate of the harp seal, Canada's most publicized wildlife species, has become the subject of a complex and emotional debate between seal hunters and environmental groups. Since the early 1960s, North Ameri- can conservationists have campaigned vigorously to abolish the early spring seal hunt in the northwest Atlantic, focusing on the clubbing to death of white-pelted harp seal...
Ralph L. Keeney, Ram B. Kulkarni,
and Keshaven Nair, in TechnologyReview (Oct. 1978), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass. 02 139.
NOWEfqergy S~U~~S
With demand for natural gas on the increase and domestic production on the wane, the United States may be importing as much as 1.6 trillion cubic feet of gas per year 1985 (100 times the current rate), according to industry predictions.
For shipment by sea (from Algeria, for example), the gas can be con- verted to a liquid tha...
Ralph L. Keeney, Ram B. Kulkarni,
and Keshaven Nair, in TechnologyReview (Oct. 1978), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass. 02 139.
NOWEfqergy S~U~~S
With demand for natural gas on the increase and domestic production on the wane, the United States may be importing as much as 1.6 trillion cubic feet of gas per year 1985 (100 times the current rate), according to industry predictions.
For shipment by sea (from Algeria, for example), the gas can be con- verted to a liquid tha...
discouraging efficient production-in order to pro- vide low-cost food to politically volatile city dwellers.
Wealthy, industralized countries respond to Third World food prob- lems on the basis of domestic politics and economic self-interest (e.g., controlling the home market for commodities like rice and sugar to protect their own producers). The Western nations have cut their finan- cial aid to Third World agriculture since 1975 and have still not estab- lished an international system of grain...
the mid-1980s or early 1990s, "when the specter of imminent oil shortages begins to haunt the world," pressures for major advances in the real price of oil can only grow.
It is essential, Levy argues, that the oil-exporting and oil-importing countries work constructively together to help the OPEC nations use their oil revenues wisely and to maintain a pricing system that will not endanger the non-communist world's economic and political system. "We cannot much longer afford a situation...
Diana Tril-
ling, in Partisan Review (no. 4, 1978), Bos-
ton University, 19 Deerfieid St., Boston,
Mass. 02215.
A new presence has arrived on the literary scene, says critic Trilling. This is the liberated heroine, "a fictional creation whose first concern is the exploration and realization of female selfhood."
No sudden apparition, she has been evolving throughout literary his- tory. From Clytemnestra and Antigone, to Henry James's Isabel Archer and the modern creations of Joan...