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Some experts, however, were more critical of the IAA decision. Hershel C. Shanks, the editor of the Biblical Archaeology Review, called the announcement "kind of a subterfuge," and said that "the IAA is being dragged, kicking and screaming, into the 20th century...
Even so, publication is a triumph for scholars who have grown old waiting to see the material. Publisher Hershel Shanks of the Biblical Archaeology Society in Washington portrays his group as scholarly Robin Hoods. "This is a historic book," he says, that "broke the monopoly" on unpublished scrolls. But the authorized group is outraged. "What else can one call it but stealing?" asks John Strugnell of Harvard University, who was removed as the team's chief editor last year, ostensibly for health reasons, after he called Judaism a "horrible" and "racist" religion...
...Hershel Jick of Boston University, who headed the research team, said yesterday there has been an epidemic of uterine cancer in the United States since the mid '60s. The number of cases has recently declined, he added...
...overall drop is attributable to the decline in use of estrogen over the last three years, Hershel said...
When the records of hospital patients are analyzed by a computer, the electronic brain sometimes makes surprising discoveries by collating and relating data that a human mind would take many years to process. This has happened in the Boston metropolitan area, where a Boston University team led by Dr. Hershel Jick analyzed the records of 25,000 patients admitted to 24 hospitals in 1972. The surprise finding, reported in the British medical journal the Lancet, is that women aged 50 or over who take certain types of medication to relieve mild cases of high blood pressure run a threefold increased...