Word: joshua
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...uterus. Fully 25% of all conceptions fail to reach an age at which they can survive outside the womb, and of these, at least a third have identifiable chromosomal abnormalities. Still, as many as five out of every 100 babies born have some genetic defect, and Nobel-Prizewinning Geneticist Joshua Lederberg believes the proportion would be even higher were it not for nature's own process of quality control...
...equality of capacity." For example, it is believed that genetic influence is especially great in such areas as mathematics, music and maybe acrobatics. Unless genetic potential is tapped by the environment, it will not develop: kittens prevented from walking will not learn normal form and depth perception. Says Geneticist Joshua Lederberg: "There is no gene that can ensure the ideal development of a child's brain without reference to tender care and inspired teaching...
...entire U. S. population is exposed to the level the AEC considers safe for the general population, Joshua Lederberg, Nobel Laureate in genetics, estimates a 10 per cent increase in the mutation rate. Other researchers, notably Drs. Gofman and Tamplin of the AEC, estimate between 32,000 and 150,000 additional annual deaths due to increased mutation, cancer and leukemia...
...wife, Laya, have four children: Stephen J., 28, a graduate student in physics at Columbia University; Zachary K., 24, an artist who lives in Stockbridge; Elizabeth A., 21,a student at Radcliffe: and Joshua A., 18. a student at Cambridge School in Weston...
Born. To Ali MacGraw, 31, romantic star of Love Story, and Robert Evans, 40, Paramount production chief: their first child, a son; in Manhattan. Name: Joshua. Weight...