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...committee considered two candidates for joint appointment in Afro and another department--Eileen Southern. lecturer on Afro-American Studies, and William A. Shack, professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley--and only Ephraim Isaac, associate professor of Afro-American Studies, for full appointment in Afro, sources close to the committee said Saturday...
...Music and Anthropology Departments nominated Southern and Shack respectively, but Isaac was nominated jointly by Rosovsky and Guinier the sources said...
...book," says Comfort, sounding more and more like a sociologist, "started to be simply a comic novel. I think now it was the manifesto of which The Joy of Sex commences the implementation." To have read Come Out to Play is like having witnessed an apple fall on Sir Isaac Newton's head: a ho-hum incident at the time but noteworthy in hindsight. As a sex book without a single sex scene, it is a tame reminder of how things have changed since 1961. And as the story of a sex clinic conceived before the advent of Masters...
...Skinner. Margaret Mead. Linus Pauling. Isaac Asimov. Paul Ehrlich. James Watson. What do these people have in common? All are scientists, and their names are more or less household words. They are also included in a group of some 40 scientists* studied by Dr. Rae Goodell, a postdoctoral fellow at M.I.T., for her doctoral thesis at Stanford University's department of communication. She picked them because they have an ability that is rare in the scientific community: to communicate effectively with the public and make headlines...
...Facts. Underlying much of the argument is the question of whether the death penalty has a deterrent effect. Most experts feel there are no reliable studies on which to base an answer. Now criminal-justice circles are abuzz with word that in a soon to be published study, Economist Isaac Ehrlich of the University of Chicago claims to have proved the existence of a deterrent effect by a statistical analysis of figures from 1933 to 1969. (The last execution...