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Promising Results. To view the hologram is easy. A beam from a helium-neon laser is passed through one lens, which spreads it to cover the entire plate, through the plate itself and then through another lens, which acts as an optical computer and converts the spots into a coherent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Molecules in 3-D | 2/14/1977 | See Source »

Refusing to give up, McDade decided during the Christmas holidays on a new approach: to look for a strange organism rather than a familiar one. It was difficult, tedious work, he recalls, "like searching for a missing contact lens on a basketball court with your eyes four inches away from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Found: The Philly Killer, Perhaps | 1/31/1977 | See Source »

"The great majority of economists," writes Schumacher, "are still pursuing the absurd ideal of making their 'science' as scientific and precise as physics, as if there were no qualitative difference between mindless atoms and men made in the image of God." Through the economist's theoretical lens, we are all...

Author: By Adam W. Glass, | Title: Economics As If People Mattered | 1/10/1977 | See Source »

The memorable image of a blood-soaked Carrie glaring upon the suddenly soundless ballroom marks the point where DePalma abandons all self-restraint. Gimmick piles upon gimmick as Carrie wreaks her vengeance; screens split, reddish tones suffuse the lens, a single shot multiplies into a revolving wheel of faces both...

Author: By Joe Contreras, | Title: I Was a Teenage Telekinetic | 12/15/1976 | See Source »

Though almost any human activity can be viewed through the lens of sociobiology, Wilson has stressed his belief that, at most, 10% or 15% of human behavior is genetically based. "For the moment, perhaps," he wrote in his 1975 book Sociobiology, "it is enough to establish that a single strong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Genes uber A//es | 12/13/1976 | See Source »

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