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Professional money managers disagree. They point out that some investment funds already exist-the Dreyfus Third Century Fund is one-that carefully screen polluters out of their holdings. On the other hand, environmental groups could avoid the issue entirely as Friends of the Earth does: FOE sells contributions of stocks and bonds immediately and puts the proceeds to work fighting polluters...
Perfected Test. Medical scientists have been trying for decades to identify those chemicals that are carcinogenic. Their task is not easy. Throughout his evolution, man has been exposed to literally millions of chemical compounds; more recently, he has encountered synthetic compounds that did not even exist a generation or even a few years ago. Testing these compounds for ability to cause cancer currently requires extensive animal studies, which will take years and cost millions of dollars. But now there may be a way to speed up the search. In a report to the Environmental Protection Agency last week, Biologist Barry...
...pretty exotic. Sharks have been around in basically the same form they are in now for about 63 million years. They have some mysterious soft staying power that bypassed their early contemporaries the dinosaurs and icthyosaurs. Yet no one knows how many types exist or how many attack humans. No one can predict for sure how they will belive in captivity, much less in their natural habitat. Or as one shark expert told Time. "Of course their actions are predictable." The problem is that "we are still so totally ignorant of shark behavior that...
...peaks, of his Russian master. At Dostoyevsky's most pathological, he still illuminated his worst sinners, sometimes with anguished faith, sometimes with a grieving moral sense. Kosinski's protagonist views sex as a corrosive, never as delight or even consolation; for Tarden, all other characters exist as so many laboratory animals awaiting his stimulus...
...violently antithetical to the radicals, such as SDS and the Committee Against Racism, two groups that shouted Banfield down during a lecture he gave at the University of Chicago last year. These principles are expressed in Banfield's theory of the class imperative. To Banfield the problems that do exist in the city, although minor ones compared to earlier days, are problems not of economic distribution or political power, but of cultural class--particularly the culture of the "lower class...