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Disappearing Soul. God and the soul are hypotheses; so were evolution and the atom, but these two are now theories "with high predictive value and practical applicability." Whereas "the soul-hypothesis, after being promoted by the scholastic theologians to the dignity of high theory, is now increasingly failing to account for psychological and neurological facts: the soul as an entity is disappearing...
...sugar, fats and other high-energy chemicals out of water and carbon diox ide. They have known for more than one century that this vital food-making process-photosynthesis, the prime mover of life on eartn-is accompusned by chlorophyll, a strange, green substance whose molecule has a single atom of magnesium framed like a jewel in its center. Generations of chemists have tried to synthesize chlorophyll-and failed. But last week Harvard University announced that Professor Robert Burns Woodward, 43, already famed for synthesizing quinine, cortisone and strychnine, had turned the historic trick: he had built genuine chlorophyll...
...aceto-acetic ester, a very ordinary chemical, which was then broken into four different compounds called pyrroles. Then followed what Woodward calls "tailoring the framework"-meaning that he and his 17 helpers devised subtle chemical tricks to put together the skeleton of the chlorophyll molecule and add the atom groups that clothe it. The final step, and one of the most difficult, was to separate chlorophyll-a (the real McCoy) from its mirror image, which was also produced by the synthesis...
From dozens of technical papers spread over four atom-packed days, it was clear that what was true when the society was founded is still true: nuclear medicine offers no panaceas for any of man's ills. Progress is being made by slow, painstaking steps. And most of it is in basic research; there are some advances in diagnostic techniques, but relatively few in new methods of treatment...
...which AEC is spending only $4,500,000 of the cost, has been un der construction since 1956 and is sched uled to be completed this fall. It would be the first big U.S. plant with a fast-breeder reactor, the type most likely to produce competitively cheap atomic power, since it produces more atom fuel than it consumes. At AEC hearings, a group of top scientists, led by Professor Hans A. Bethe of Cornell, testified that the plant could be operated without undue risk to the public. City officials of Monroe said they welcomed the plant. AEC is expected...