Word: maimon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Geneticist Maimon J. Cohen and his colleagues were making a highly preliminary report. They had found this phenomenon in the blood of only three people. From two healthy subjects they drew blood, then grew the white cells in the test tube. When LSD, in varying concentrations, was added for durations of four to 48 hours, the number of broken or otherwise damaged chromosomes was increased as much as tenfold over the small number usually found in healthy cells...
...efforts to bridge the gap be tween reason and revelation have had longer life or greater influence than the Guide of the Perplexed, written more than seven centuries ago by Rabbi Moses ben Maimon, better known (by the Greek form of his name) as Maimonides. Just published is the 20th century's first complete English version of Maimonides' classic Guide (University of Chicago; $15). Translated by Dr. Shlomo Pines of Jerusalem's Hebrew University, the Guide freshly emerges as a mirror of an age and as the intellectual masterwork of a remarkable...