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...there, then, really a controversy on I.Q.? There is clearly a good deal of agitation, but is there counterevidence instead of emotion, fact instead of fantasy, reasoned dispute instead of vituperation? Not much, it seems. The proper message to extract from the ersatz controversy on I.Q. is that many people are not yet ready or willing to hear the news about human differences, because they fear it will be bad. It is unlikely to be as bad as they fear, but it does challenge common egalitarian visions of the good society. The real news--rather than what you've been...

Author: By R. J. Herrnstein, | Title: The Ersatz Controversy I Q | 11/27/1973 | See Source »

...guarantee all religious faiths access to sacred shrines in this very special city. A compromise on this emotional issue, however, might well lead to the collapse of any Israeli government that was forced to make it, and the U.S. would have to use every bit of its influence to extract a compromise from Israel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PEACE TALKS: Trading Territory for Security? | 11/5/1973 | See Source »

...Clomid (clomiphene citrate) is a drug that stimulates the pituitary gland to release hormones and so prepares the ovaries for ovulation. Pergonal (menotropins), a hormonal extract from the urine of postmenopausal women, induces ovulation by directly stimulating the ovaries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Superpregnancy | 10/1/1973 | See Source »

Once, the only treatment for Rh disease was to replace virtually the entire fetal blood supply with massive transfusions before or shortly after birth. Now prevention is possible in the form of a blood extract called Rh immune globulin. Developed independently by research teams in England and the U.S. nearly a decade ago, the globulin acts as a vaccine to curtail the Rh-negative woman's production of antibodies and greatly reduces the risks to future Rh-positive children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Unnecessary Illness | 9/24/1973 | See Source »

...Friday, Tennis Pro Lornie Kuhle. He is also on a vitamin-based, high-protein diet planned for him by a Los Angeles nutritionist before the Court match. The program calls for Riggs to take approximately 450 pills a day: 100 black pellets of soybean-wheat germ concentrate, 75 liver-extract pills, 75 plastic phials of pure powdered protein, smaller quantities of vitamins E, C, Bl, B2, B complex, one vitamin A pill and several calcium pills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Bobby Runs and Talks, Talks, Talks | 9/10/1973 | See Source »

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