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...medical shortsightedness. In the early 1 8th century, the Rev. Cot ton Mather, of all people, was accused by Boston doctors of in terfering with the "all-wise providence of God almighty" by rec ommending inoculation against smallpox. Louis Pasteur evoked the fury of medical savants with his germ theory of disease...
...Health in Bethesda, Md. It has a totally sealed environment, airlocks, decontamination systems, showers for workers after experiments, and sealed cabinets accessible only through attached gloves. Some "worst case" experiments, involving animal tumor viruses, will begin in the trailer this summer. NIH is also converting some of the abandoned germ-warfare labs at Maryland's Fort Detrick into similar super-containment facilities. In addition to the labs, the guidelines require the use of the self-destructing, escape-proof microbes for certain higher-risk experiments...
...reasons never fully explained we are asked to believe that the U.S. Government is storing deadly bacteria, useful in germ warfare, at the World Health Organization headquarters in Geneva. For reasons never fully explained, a team of agents?their allegiance never identified?breaks in to rip the stuff off. Two are stopped, but one gets away and, infected with the plague, boards an international express train bound for Sweden. For reasons n.f.e., Burt Lancaster, the American intelligence agent in charge of arresting both crook and disease, orders the cars sealed (to prevent an epidemic), then diverts the express to Poland...
Unless you're one of those recluses who lives in the netherworld of Central Square, catches the Red Line for your 11 o'clock at Burr B, and eats wheat germ at Hemispheres everyday, you have to deal with it: Harvard food. Whether you're a freshman living in Hurlbut or a senior in Adams, a pre-med or a poet, you still have to eat what the Food Services provides...
Science alone cannot zero in on contemporary problems so easily. Most of the germ-caused diseases are well under congrol in the U.S.; the main causes of death now are heart disease and stroke, cancer, and accidents, homicide and suicide. Such ills can not be eliminated with simple drugs. They are not bugs inside the body--they are in fact hard to separate from the body, and are caused by factors like aging, stress, and hazardous chemicals in the environment. Relieving stress takes compassion. Keeping the environment clean requires social and political action...