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Dates: during 1970-1979
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George Eric Mitzon Severna Park, Md...
Building 550 is an unprepossessing two-story, barracks-like structure in the U.S. Army's old chemical and germ warfare center at Fort Detrick. Md. Next week it will become the site of an important experiment. Converted at a cost of $250,000, the facility has been certified by the National Institutes of Health as the nation's first P-4 laboratory, where the riskiest genetic research now permitted by the NIH can be conducted. The lab's initial test will attempt to answer two vital questions: Can recombinant DNA research create dangerous organisms...
...number of schools, including the University of Chicago, already have some version of a core curriculum, while St. John's in Annapolis, Md., has developed its own "great books curriculum." Other colleges, notably Brown, are standing by their liberalized curriculums, in which students have few set academic requirements...
...Md., Alexander Leaf, Harvard professor of clinical medicine, whose 1973 National Geographic article and 1975 book Youth in Old Age did much to advance the legend of Vilcabamba's oldsters, ruefully said that it was apparently all a hoax. Vilcabamba ("Sacred Valley" in the Inca tongue), it now appears, has no more senior citizens per capita than other Andean towns. In fact, the revelations of such gerontological high jinks are remarkably similar to earlier reports from Soviet scientists that some of their old folks may not be as ancient as they claim...
...result is a steady parade of top-notch players to the small (826 students), Catholic boys' school run by the Trinitarian Order in Hyattsville, Md., ten miles from the White House. In recent years, the march from Washington's inner city has become a stampede. Los Angeles Lakers Forward Adrian Dantley, NBA rookie of the year last season with Buffalo, learned about Wootten from James Brown, who starred at De Matha before attending Harvard on a scholarship. At Wootten's suggestion, Dantley spent the summer before his freshman year boning up on his studies. By the time...