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Dates: during 1970-1979
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However, as Lear convincingly shows, the scientists' attitudes towards the public marred the apparent nobility of the discussions. Most of these conferences remained either closed to the press or operated with unusual rules of confidentiality which served to inhibit public discussion and understanding of recombinant DNA research. Moreover, many scientists did not even consider the public's right to have input to regulating research that could cause them harm. Dissenting scientists, those who questioned most closely the hazards of such research, were not invited to the conferences...

Author: By Susan D. Chira, | Title: Behind the Genetics Controversy | 10/23/1978 | See Source »

Leakey extends this argument to make his own claims about the nature of intelligence and language. He says we can no longer define man's uniqueness by either his ability to construct sentences or his ability to construct sentences or his ability to make tools. He cites the recently discovered ability in chimpanzees and gorillas to make and use primative tools as well as to create basic sentences. The progress chimpanzees and gorillas have made in the realm of language is particularly revolutionary and calls for a reevaluation of the fundamental differences between man and animal, Leakey writes...

Author: By J. WYATT Emmerich, | Title: Leakey's Ancient Visions | 10/23/1978 | See Source »

MARY GORDON'S first novel Final Payments attempts to show the effect of the denial of pleasure. However, she neglects to clearly explain her notion of either pleasure or self-discipline. Only her direct and meticulous prose makes her heroine's actions plausible...

Author: By Giselle Falkenberg, | Title: Twentieth Century Sin | 10/23/1978 | See Source »

Carter used a lot of his own energy in an attempt to keep the energy of his country flowing. In so doing he will enter the history books as having achieved one of two things: either the termination of a 30-year-old war or the destruction of a 30-year-old nation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 23, 1978 | 10/23/1978 | See Source »

...King. Businessman Robert Short defeated liberal Congressman Donald Fraser in the primary, partly by calling for a whopping $100 billion cut (i.e. 20%) in the federal budget. Short's Independent-Republican opponent, David Durenberger, claims that such a slash would be a "disaster for the needy. We cannot afford either on humanitarian or economic terms such an unrealistic Short cut." Vice President Walter Mondale and state labor leaders then persuaded Short to say that his $100 billion budget cut was a goal, not an immediate prospect. FLORIDA. Taxes are relatively light in this state, but the economic issues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Tax-Slashing Campaign | 10/23/1978 | See Source »

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