Word: labs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cross Section. Clementi and other IBM scientists stuffed the memory of an advanced computer with equations that described a number of different atoms. Having set up what, in effect, was an electronic chemistry lab, Clementi ordered the computer to produce the mathematical specifications for one molecule of ammonia and one of hydrochloric acid. The obedient computer was then told to move the two molecules together gradually until they combined to form ammonium chloride (commonly called sal ammoniac), a chemical found in such varied products as cough medicines and battery electrolytes...
Elsewhere in Mallinckrodt, it was chemistry as usual. No one seemed to know about the trouble at M-102. One student, in his second-floor laboratory, laughed at the mention of another demonstration, and recalled that he had been in his lab when the first one started a year...
...little impulse leads to another. Police stormed into the campus of Brasilia to arrest five students wanted for "subversion." The cops cracked heads as they moved from classroom to lab. Rising in Congress to protest the police conduct, Márcio Moreira Alves, one of the few remaining opposition Deputies, proposed a public boycott of the Independence Day military parades. Duly insulted by this, the Ministers of the Army, Air Force and Navy then moved, with President Costa e Silva's assent, to cashier Alves for abusing "his political rights." To some observers, it looked like the first step...
...FIVE social science core courses deal with one or more aspects of the urban environment. Two will be primarily "lab" courses--the "lab" being the surrounding Washington community--in which the students study urban social and political institutions. Individual projects, such as attempts at community organizing, are encouraged...
Genetics may open the door to still more macabre methods of destruction. In The Biological Time Bomb (World; $5.50), published last week, British Science Writer Gordon Rattray Taylor raises the specter of genetic warfare-one nation permanently weakening the people of another by infecting them with potent lab-made viruses carrying damaging hereditary material. Experiments have already shown that viral infections can make fruit flies fatally sensitive to such ordinary substances as carbon dioxide. M.I.T. Bacteriologist Salvador Luria speculates that some day a diabolical individual may be able to concoct a virus that renders men equally susceptible to specific substances...