Word: environmental
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cancer tissue, as researchers have long known, can easily be transplanted from one mammalian species to another. When Dr. Greene grafted human cancer tissue on a guinea pig's eye (a nourishing and easy-to-watch site for experiment), the transplanted cancer thrived in its new environment. But his...
Bound personnel-wise to Princeton if not financially or administratively, the Institute for Advanced Studies offers an opportunity for "post-postgraduate" work to a select group of 30-odd top U. S. scholars. These men freely elect their mentors from a faculty of 16 in an environment stripped of lectures...
"The English novel seems to be a race between about six characters to see who is most sensitive, while the American novel is a race to see who can get drunk fastest," he observed with a broad smile. He added that the American writer "is hampered by an over-abundance...
The British poet stressed that Europeans are not divided rigidly into pro-Stalinists and pro-capitalists. "The conflict exists most keenly in Europe," he said, adding that if a man does choose one extreme, "he is only choosing an environment in which he can continue his struggle for individual liberty...
After a lifetime of accumulating such data, Huntington wrote a book entitled Mainsprings of Civilization, which is probably the top mark (with the exception of Arnold J. Toynbee's work) for high, wide & handsome thinking about human affairs. The book began with a declared objective that would drive most...