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...fertile Southwest, and with it one of its biggest cash crops will blossom in fields, along roadsides and in suburban backyard gardens: marijuana. Call the police? Sure, but don't forget the doctor. It turns out that marijuana is no friend to allergy sufferers. Dr. Geraldine Freeman, in a study published by the Western Journal of Medicine, finds that pot pollen may be as irritating to some respiratory systems as ragweed. In a seven-month survey of 129 patients' reactions to various substances, Freeman found that about 50% of those tested showed allergic reactions to marijuana pollen...
...solid goal," says Yale Computer Center Director Greydon Freeman. "Everyone agrees the campus ought to be wired...
DIED. Suzanne La Follette, 89, conservative journalist and founding editor of several magazines, including National Review; in Menlo Park, Calif. An early, ardent feminist, she revived the radical magazine the Freeman in 1930. Gradually departing from leftism, she revived the Freeman yet again in 1950, this time as the voice of the "nontotalitarian right." "I haven't moved," she once said of her views. "The world has moved to the left...
...Freeman himself should be wary, for he continues to subscribe to the belief that the human brain and body at birth are analogous to a computer fully equipped with programs and waiting only for experience to supply them with variables. In fact, recent studies have shown that the structure and development of both the brain and body are significantly affected by post-natal experience...
Unfortunately, the real loser in this book is neither biological nor cultural determinism, but Margaret Mead herself. Freeman ignores the fact that, to some degree, she and Boas were more interested in studying cultural variations themselves than deciding whether such variations meant that men were not bound by their genes. Worse, Freeman portrays Mead as a possessed and ignorant follower of Boas who was duped by her Samoan informants. When he spoke last month, Freeman voiced the opinion that, because of her involvement with Boas, Margaret Mead was "more sinned against that sinning." Freeman's own book, important...