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...only outing of the season, the Indians finished a very distant second to Northeastern in the Boston College Relays last weekend...
Astonishingly, this capacity has been acquired only recently with remarkable advances in the life sciences. On the following pages, TIME describes the advances, including their promises and dangers. Some are distant, others close at hand...
...scientists can retard cross linking in man, they may well slow his aging process. Scientists also hope that they can some day do away with disease, genetically breeding out hereditary defects while breeding in new immunities to bacterial and other externally caused ailments. Finally, they look forward?in the distant future and with techniques far beyond any now conceived?to altering the very nature of their species with novel sets of laboratory-created genetic instructions...
...HOPE OF deciphering this staggering variety, hundreds of scientists, including molecular biologists, in the U.S. and abroad, are now turning to brain research. One day in the distant future, their discoveries may help man to improve his already remarkable brain?for despite its dazzling versatility and subtlety, it is not without limitation. "Computers slashing from circuit to circuit in microseconds can cope with the input and response time of dozens of human brains simultaneously," Biophysicist Sinsheimer laments. Besides, the brain can call up only a limited amount of stored information at a time to focus it on a particular problem...
...have happened to a more vulnerable guy. Hank Glyczwycz is a bitter middle-aged cynic. He was just beginning to loosen up to his students' sweet faith in love and peace highs when Gloria wrecks him with her disclosure. She is the forgotten illegitimate daughter from a distant love affair...