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ROOTS OF INVOLVEMENT: THE U.S. IN ASIA 1784-1971 by Marvin Kalb and Elie Abel. 336 pages. Norton...
...than $100 a patient and may save up to $500 in fees for laboratory tests, as an ideal way of examining large numbers of people and providing the early warning necessary for the prevention or successful treatment of many diseases. Others feel that screening is economically impractical. But Dr. Marvin Klein, who runs Checkup, a private, computerized diagnostic center in Chicago, offers evidence that the process can pay. By screening members of a union that subscribed to his service, he uncovered signs of glaucoma, a serious eye disease, in six. Two of the patients would have gone blind without prompt...
...When Marvin Katko, 30, broke into an abandoned farmhouse near Oskaloosa, Iowa, a shotgun cut loose with a load of buckshot, hitting him in the right ankle. The gun had been tied to a bed, and the trigger was wired to go off when the bedroom door was opened. Katko was arrested, for petty larceny, fined $50 and put on six months' probation. Justice had apparently been done, or so everyone thought-except Marvin Katko...
Still, Miss Borroff recalls that M.I.T. Professor of Electrical Engineering Marvin Minsky recently argued, "The human brain is just a computer that happens to be made of meat." Is the computer, she asks, "just a poet's mind that happens to be made of electronic circuitry?" Her conclusion: "There are no foreseeable limits to the complexity of electronic intelligence. Eventually, the key question will be not whether the computer can simulate the independent activity of a poet, but whether we want...
Aldrin was joined by Clifford Frondel, professor of Mineralogy: Elso S. Barghoorn, professor of Botany; and Ursula B. Marvin, staff member of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and associate of the Harvard College Observatory. The meeting was sponsored by the Harvard-Radcliffe chapter of Sigma Xi, a scientific fraternity...