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...Gordon Whatley Verdun...
...among rosy brick and crisp white clapboard buildings. But this is no typical summer school. The students are somewhat longer of tooth and thicker of waist than the average undergraduate, and their chatter is about polymers and photoconduction, magnetic resonance and spectroscopy. They are participants in one of the Gordon Research Conferences, possibly the oldest and most eminent floating brain trust in the world...
...meetings are the brainchild of a Johns Hopkins University chemistry professor, the late Neil Gordon, who was dissatisfied with the standard ways of transmitting scientific information: either through learned journals or at conferences organized strictly for academic or industrial chemists. Gordon wanted a small group of scientists to meet in a secluded and relaxed setting that would foster a free give and take. The first meeting in 1931 was a simple summer seminar open to Hopkins faculty and students, but the concept grew quickly. There are now about 100 Gordon conferences a year attended by more than 12,000 scientists...
...genetic engineering or recombinant DNA. That year, at a session on nucleic acids, researchers first voiced what was to become a national concern over the technology's possible dangers in creating new life forms. Among the most pregnant research areas taken up at this year's Gordon conferences: the structure and function of "endogenous opiates," pain-killing chemicals produced by the body itself, and the new field of bioelectrochemistry that is beginning to draw attention with the recent discovery that electric currents sometimes help knit stubborn bone fractures...
Still, therapists are encountering more tricky cases in which sexual difficulties are tied to psychological problems, as opposed to Masters and Johnson's emphasis on sex as a behavioral "natural function." Says Kevin Gordon of the Human Sexuality Program at the University of California at San Francisco: "The symptoms are part of larger issues-like anger in a marriage. It's all very complicated...