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Within two days museumgoers, including elderly couples, beatniks and housewives with children, had broken all attendance records. Sweden being Sweden, there was no public outcry. Indeed, the show drew favorable reviews. Even the conservative Sydsvenska Dag-bladet ran eleven detailed pictures. Its conclusion: "On the whole, far more harmless than any one of our ordinary men's magazines...
...problem goes on. Though one-third of U.S. sewage systems are below health standards, improving them may also kill lakes. The problem is that treated sewage contains nitrate and phosphate, fertilizing substances widely used in agriculture that make things worse in overfertilized lakes. Though nitrate is normally harmless in the body, intestinal bacteria can turn it into nitrite, a compound that hinders hemoglobin from transporting oxygen to the tissues, causing labored breathing and even suffocation...
...below the Nevada desert last week, the AEC tested a one-megaton hydrogen device, the largest ever exploded in the U.S. Despite earlier protests from scientists, labor leaders and Howard Hughes, who had feared earthquakes, major property damage and vented radiation, the blast produced only a harmless ground shock and a rock-filled underground cavity similar to that created by the AEC's Project Gas-buggy (TIME...
Another defense argument, advanced by James D. St. Clair, Coffin's attorney, is that the value of encouraging as open a public discussion as possible under the First Amendment overbalances the relatively harmless violation of draft regulations. (St. Clair himself, a lecturer on law at Harvard, is a veteran of liberal campaigns. He was one of Joseph Welch's chief aides in the Army-McCarthy hearings of 1954.) To convict the five men, St. Clair said, would have the effect of "chilling" debate on the draft and the war by raising the menace of Federal prosecution...
...Many are in psychology and the other social sciences, but there are others in the physical sciences and biology. Such experiments raise a host of complicated ethical, legal, political and humanistic issues. Research is a cornerstone of large universities, but experimenters who use humans may cause damage, unlike the harmless academics who warm seats somewhere in Widener. By raising questions which demand examination, human experimentation limits the classic unfettered freedom of academic research...