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...three weeks, Griffith will be something of a one-man monitoring board. He plans to continue what he did in How True: "Talk about what is right and wrong about the press." His intention is not to turn out a "trade column" but to write for the concerned layman and to focus on issues that the public finds "pertinent and fascinating"-such as whether the press should print everything it knows. "Some journalists feel that because of the First Amendment they couldn't possibly be accountable to anyone," says Griffith. "That position is nice to hold, but an awful...
...wrought as The Patchwork Mouse. Hixson, a former newspaper reporter and public information officer at S.K.I., has gone beyond the emotionalism of the Summerlin affair to take a hard look at the promises and problems of big-league research. The result is a cautionary tale that no scientist-or layman-can afford to ignore...
What Gmeiner has done for orphans, Canadian Jean Vanier has accomplished in a similar way for mentally retarded adults: permanent and caring communities. A Catholic layman and son of a former Governor General of Canada, Vanier spent 14 years of spiritual search before moving into a dilapidated old house in Trosly, France, in 1964 to share his life with two retarded men. Since then, L 'Arche (the Ark) communities, in which the normal and retarded share a common life, have opened on four continents. Vanier describes the homes as places of "human and spiritual progress," where the retarded gain...
...liberties in either the Soviet Union or several nations of Black Africa. In fact, the delegates were forced to face the question of Soviet repression principally by a gutsy Nairobi-based Christian newspaper, Target, which printed a smuggled plea to the World Council from Moscow Priest Gleb Yakunin and Layman Lev Regelson. The pair complained that the council had made no protest when "the Russian Orthodox Church was half destroyed" in the early 1960s, and pleaded for a crusade against persecution of Christians in the Soviet Union...
BUTTERFLIES by Thomas C. Emmel. 244 pages. Knopf. $29.95. Some of these rare Lepidoptera are so luminescent they produce optical shock. Even the commoner varieties blend the lyrical with the clinical, intriguing both scientist and layman. Accompanying facts are as remarkable as the closeup images. The ubiquitous orange monarch, for example, is the only true round-trip migrant among the world's 20,000 species. Although only one family of butterflies is called satyrs, most males exhibit an aggressive libido as soon as they emerge from the chrysalis-they can detect females by odor, flight signals, and ultraviolet waves...