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Armed Joys. Why? The main reason is that San Franciscans are tired of being visually bullied. An anti-tower coalition of citizens and conservationists argued that the 550-ft.-high structure would obliterate vistas and harm the city's still intimate scale. Dress Manufacturer Alvin Duskin took an ad to warn that San Francisco would soon be "like New York and Chicago, where life has all the joys of the bottom of an elevator shaft-a crowded elevator shaft where everybody has guns...
...1960s. Yet even as it is gaining its greatest triumphs-the moon, the green revolution, the ability to control and even change the processes of life-science and scientists have come under increasing attack. Some more reasonable critics argue that the antiscience barrage promises more good than harm for a field that has been enjoying too high a priority for too long. Science Writer Lawrence Lessing, a member of FORTUNE'S board of editors, does not agree. In the magazine's March issue, he argues that if the current "senseless war" on science and its kindred discipline, technology...
...wants of science and destroy what it feels is valueless or threatening. "Science is indivisible," Lessing states, "a seamless web of accumulated knowledge, and to destroy a part would rip the whole fabric. Every discovery or invention of man has this dual aspect"-a potential for both benefit and harm. He warns that it does no good to try to retreat to an earlier century, and he quotes Konrad Lorenz, the famed naturalist and animal behaviorist, who has been warning hostile student audiences that if they tear down knowledge to start afresh, they will backslide 200,000 years. "Watch...
...health department last year that their drinking water contained enough sodium to endanger the lives of people with heart or kidney ailments who were on strict low-salt diets. Tests in Minnesota disclosed that even the anticorrosive additives in the salts, designed to prevent auto rust, can do more harm than good: phosphates in the additives are nutrients that can speed eutrophication, the natural aging process of bodies of water. Some additives used to prevent the salts' caking contain compounds that decompose into poisonous cyanide ions...
Grimspoon, co-chairman of the committee, said yesterday, "Marijuana is dangerous because it is a drug, but it is less dangerous than other commonly used drugs. The medical harm is not as great as the social harm that threatensyoung people with becoming deviant criminals...