Word: bio
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bio 2 and Nat Sci 5 as well, require familiarity with chemistry...
...choice between Nat Sci 5, which has recently been upgraded, and Bio 1 and 2 is a difficult one. Perhaps one way of determining which to take can be based on background; clearly, an AP in Bio places you out of the ball park and into between-level courses (Bio 10 thru 99). If you have had strong high school biology and are competent in the chemical sciences as well as math, Bio 1 and 2 seem most appropriate...
...George S. Kaufman, and he could be almost as funny, talking in an original staccato shorthand. Broadway legend has it that when he wanted a friend to give him a phone call, he would say: "Gimme a quick Ameche one of these days," referring to Don Ameche's bio-pic of Alexander Graham Bell. Canceling a meeting: "Can't meet you today -unforch...
...perhaps that is the essence of the first question we must ask in assessing any sort of bio-medical research that involves human beings: What is the scientific validity of the research at hand? Certainly ethical behavior in experimentation depends upon the ethics of the question being asked by the investigator. Rutstein explains how an unethical experiment can be transformed into an ethical one by rephrasing the question...
...letting a subject know (by means of a light or other signal) whenever he succeeds in emitting alpha. Capitalizing on the widespread hunger for instant nirvana, commercial promoters are selling "alpha machines" for home use and opening "alpha training institutes." According to Psychologist Thomas Mulholland, chairman of the Bio-Feedback Research Society, these attract chiefly "the naive, the desperate and the superstitious...