Word: beene
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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"Every invention in the course of history," Darlington says, "from the first right down to the present-day computer, has required a mental effort to exploit it. It has therefore exerted a selective pressure against the less intelligent. This pressure has been responsible for the evolutionary improvement of the human...
"We have appeared to waffle it," fretted HEW Secretary Robert Finch. Some people in the Food and Drug Administration, he said, "have been overzealous" in their warnings, while "others have gone too far the other way." Finch had good reason to be disturbed; there was growing confusion last week about...
At the center of the cyclamate hassle was Dr. Jacqueline Verrett, a veteran FDA research scientist who, since 1966, has been testing cyclamate on chicken embryos. Of a total of 4,000 embryos injected, 15% have shown obvious deformities: feet attached directly to the hip, toes fused together, "flipper" legs...
Dr. Verrett was furious. "My studies were not false," she said, insisting that on the basis of her work and that of her associate, Dr. Marvin Legator, cyclamate may well produce deformities, transmissible mutations or cancer-or all three. "Mr. Finch does not seem to consider that the next species...
For a few seconds one night last spring, the blinding flash of a huge meteor lit up the sky over central Mexico. A short time later, a B57 sped to the scene from Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque, N. Mex. Its mission was to collect any debris that might...