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DIED. Robert Havemann, 72, unbending East German pacifist leader who opposed first Hitler and then Communist rulers of his homeland; of heart and lung damage first inflicted when he was imprisoned by the Nazis; in Gruenheid, near East Berlin. An outstanding physical chemist, Havemann joined the Communist Party in 1932 to oppose the Nazis, then 25 years later became an increasingly angry critic of Communist totalitarianism, though he still considered himself a "true Marxist." Purged from the party in 1964, he was scorned as a "Socrates who spoils our youth" and held under house arrest from 1979 until his death...
...publishing circles, the cubists are hotter than Harold Robbins. With 6 million copies in print, The Simple Solution to Rubik's Cube, a 64-page booklet written by Stanford Chemist James Nourse, has become the fastest-selling title in the history of Bantam Books, outpacing Jaws and Valley of the Dolls. Buoyed by the acute aggravation of frustrated cube twiddlers, Nourse's book has topped bestseller lists in the U.S. and around the world from New Zealand to Nigeria. Says John May, managing director of George's Booksellers in Bristol, England: "The cube phenomenon is the biggest...
Perhaps the most popular new folk remedy of modern times is ascorbic acid, a.k.a. vitamin C. Ever since Nobel-Prizewinning Chemist Linus Pauling popularized this remedy in the 1970 book Vitamin C and the Common Cold, many people have become convinced that big doses of ascorbic acid help ward off or ameliorate colds; controlled experiments, however, have failed "to provide proof of the claim. Some folk remedies out of folklore (rub socks with onions, coat body with Vaseline) are hard to consider with a straight face, and a great many others irresistibly bring to mind Robert Benchley's personal...
Some researchers are using PET scans to explore the brains of people suffering from schizophrenia, manic-depressive illness and senile dementia. Their hope is that by scanning hundreds, even thousands, of patients with such conditions, distinctive patterns of biochemical activity will emerge, making diagnosis easier and more precise. Says Chemist Alfred Wolf of Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island: "A diagnosis with cognitive tests, for example memory quizzes, takes days. The whole PET procedure takes under 90 minutes...
...science -including astrology and medical quackery, as well as the "science" of creationism. Says Wayne Moyer, executive director of the National Association of Biology Teachers: "We have done a botched job of teaching evolutionary theory, and we had better accept the creationist challenge to clean up our act." Adds Chemist Russell Doolittle: "At first I couldn't understand the gullibility of people. It took me a while to understand that the average American is not equipped to combat this sort of thing. The tragedy of it all is the state of science education in the country...