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...even a few years ago. Testing these compounds for ability to cause cancer currently requires extensive animal studies, which will take years and cost millions of dollars. But now there may be a way to speed up the search. In a report to the Environmental Protection Agency last week, Biologist Barry Commoner, who heads the Center for the Biology of Natural Systems at St. Louis' Washington University, announced that he had perfected a test that can not only identify possible carcinogens, but may also be able to pick out those individuals most likely to develop cancer as a result...
...year-old cell biologist, said that he learned about acupuncture during 15 years as a student of Zen Buddhism in Taiwan, and that he is the only person in the world who can cause others to feel their own nerve pathways by placing his hand above the pathway...
Down but not out in Paris, Dr. George Goggins and his mistress Dulcinea decide to found a sex clinic for dissatisfied couples. Why not? Goggins is a biologist specializing in human fertility, and Dulcinea is:-well, skilled and nubile. Before they can say Kama Sutra, a throng of tense American and English twosomes have assembled for lessons. Soon odd things are happening. The shrill, squeaky voices of the wives turn plush and throaty. The husbands, mostly NATO officials, lose their interest in rocketry and war. One way and another, their marriages bloom as never before...
...couple very high in the English establishment, Goggins is rewarded with a title, an honorary degree from Oxford, and enough sex-education projects to make him rich for life. Oddly, something very like this improbable conclusion has happened to Goggins' creator-Alex Comfort, 55, a writer-biologist-philosopher of some note, whose useful work on the aging process was carried out in modest obscurity until he unleashed The Joy of Sex and More Joy (TIME, Oct. 7) upon the do-it-by-the-book decade. Odder still, Comfort published Come Out to Play in England in 1961, long before...
...research careers. Other scientists see them, Goodell says, "as a pollution in the scientific community," as publicity grabbers who depart from normal scientific channels to communicate their views. These critics complain that their better publicized colleagues may mislead the public because they often speak outside their area of expertise. Biologist George Wald, a Nobel Laureate and vociferous antiwar spokesman, disagrees. "If the scientist is good," he says, "his field is reality, and that covers an awful lot of ground. I think that the scientist can be that rare, disinterested person who calls it the way he sees...