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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some psychologists argue that popular self-awareness and self-assertion literature has helped push motorists to violence. But University of Chicago Psychiatrist Lawrence Z. Freedman, who served as an Adviser to the Presidential Commission on Violence, may be closer to the mark. Heterogeneous groups tend to produce more violence than homogeneous ones, he says, and the highway population is predictably heterogeneous, filled with drivers of different ethnic backgrounds and classes. In other words, many naturally aggressive people tamp down their hostility on their home turf, but unleash it on "aliens" after minor collisions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Auto Violence | 8/14/1978 | See Source »

Under Secretary of the Treasury Anthony Solomon managed to be upbeat, suggesting that fewer dollars would be pouring overseas in the future, because the weakening economy is now starting to drag down the U.S. growth rate to a level closer to that of the rest of the world. The reasoning is in sharp contrast to the White House's yearlong drive to persuade West Germany and Japan to pump up their economies rather than to have the U.S. rely on a slowing of its own; and it is typical of the wavering signals that the Administration has been sending...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Why the Dollar Is Dropping | 8/7/1978 | See Source »

...student-proposed program that would assign undergraduates to act as informal advisers for freshmen moved closer to gaining University approval last week, as the dean of students provisionally granted it official status and the Freshmen Dean's Office agreed to fund two sets of its mailings...

Author: By Payne L. Templeton, | Title: Epps, Moses Give Approval To Freshmen Advising Program | 8/1/1978 | See Source »

Though cloning mammals by the classic method is a long way off, scientists are moving closer to cloning mice by an indirect route. In this technique, devised by Yale Biologist Clement Markert, eggs are removed from a female mouse shortly after fertilization. At this early stage, genetic material from egg and sperm have not yet mixed; the mother's and father's genes are still in two distinct sacs, called pronuclei. Using microsurgery, Markert removes either pronucleus. The egg is then exposed to a chemical that causes the remaining pronucleus to replicate, thus giving the cell a full...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: A Test-Tube Baby Is Not a Clone | 7/31/1978 | See Source »

...paper to alter its pro-strike editorial policy. When that attempt failed, certain alumni and faculty helped endow The Harvard Independent, the College's weekly, as a "conservative" alternative. The Independent has long since evolved into a middle-of-the-road journal, while The Crimson itself has drifted closer to the center of the political spectrum; nonetheless, the memory of the administration's heavy-handed attempt lingers, called forth by the clattering of the press last night...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly, | Title: Why Not Do It Yourself? | 7/28/1978 | See Source »

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