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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...were showered with fallout, and workers in nuclear shipyards. In fact, many experts now believe any radiation carries with it some risks, as yet undefined, that may take years to show up. As Harvard University's Nobel-Prizewinning Biologist George Wald, an antinuclear activist, puts it: "Every dose is an overdose. There is no threshold where radiation is concerned. A little radiation does a little harm; a lot does more harm...
Mere parody, though, can never be satisfying. When, in Mann's phrase, "Art becomes critique," the self-consciousness of parody can be crippling and destructive. Perhaps the goal should be to combine a parodic sense with an underlying faith in the essential form and a dose of the new and vital. The Sex Pistols achieve this delicate balance on side two in their reclamation of "Johnny B. Goode" and Boston local Jonathan Richman's "Road Runner." Sure to be a legend of rock and roll, this track alone justifies the rather extravagant price which decorates the album jacket. Opening with...
Much of this new psychiatry centers on schizophrenia, the most disabling and puzzling of mental illnesses. There are dozens of contending theories to explain it. The leading behavioral one derives from Anthropologist Gregory Bateson's concept of the double bind, which holds that schizophrenia arises from a prolonged dose of conflicting instructions, as, say, when a mother tells a child not to eat sweets, yet is constantly rewarding it with candy. But studies of identical twins and adopted children by Biochemist Seymour Kety strongly suggest a genetic base for schizophrenia. According to Kety, the flaw, contained in the cells...
Similarly, scientists have found that a low level of the neurotransmitter serotonin may be linked to insomnia. Researchers have been experimenting with tryptophan, the chemical from which the body makes serotonin. Only a small dose of tryptophan-which is found in many foods, notably milk-seems to ease the insomniac to sleep...
...report added: "Because the clinical features of cancer do not reveal its cause, it is impossible to distinguish the few [people] with radiogenic cancer from the larger group whose cancer was caused by other factors." What is more, it usually is impossible to determine just how large a dose of radiation a victim received. Consequently, although Califano professed dissatisfaction with the recommended safe level of 170 millirems a year (Americans typically receive 70 to 100 millirems a year from medical X rays), he said that the Government does not have enough information to lower permissible emission. While scientists seek more...