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Physiologist Delgado has developed even more dramatic methods of aggression control in animals. In one famous experiment, he implanted electrodes in the brain of a bull bred for fierceness. Then, with only a small radio transmitter as protection, he entered the ring with the bull and stopped the angry animal in mid-charge by sending signals into what he believes was its violence-inhibiting center. Similarly, Neuroanatomist Carmine Clemente of U.C.L.A. has shocked cats into dropping rats they were about to kill. But neither man sees any early prospects for remote control of human aggression...
...children became close friends with Arabs, and 84% if a friend or relative were to marry an Arab. The most biased Israelis are recently arrived Sephardic Jews from Africa and Asia, many of whom lived in Arab countries. The least biased are native-born Sabras, followed by the Europe-bred Ashkenazi Jews...
Tell me where is fancy bred,/ . . . in the heart or in the head...
...particular tribe of chauvinists that New York has always bred could only observe that if relative cleanliness and efficiency were Doublet's criteria, then perhaps he would prefer Salina, Kans., or Salt Lake City. Still, if it is true that the world's great cities-ancient Rome or 19th century London, for example-have always been paradoxically noisome and even dangerous places, many New Yorkers could do with a little less greatness...
...demanding context and more context, he seems remarkably provincial. He acts as if the disintegration of "communal ties" were a problem invented by 19th century America. He is guilty of a crime of his own: thesis protecting. He neglects to point out that Emerson's "imperial self" was bred, after all, with the help of German philosophy. Every Zen trender can spot for himself the Oriental mysticism in Whitman, but as far as Anderson is concerned, it all comes f.o.b. Brooklyn and New Jersey...