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...only signaled its agreement with that view, it issued a 500-page report specifying just what is meant by eating right. "Our committee's recommendations should not be regarded as assuring a cancer-free life," said Dr. Clifford Grobstein, University of California biologist and chairman of the NAS panel that released the two-year study, but "by controlling what we eat we may prevent diet-sensitive cancer." Among the recommendations...
Three Harvard faculty members serving on a National Academy of Sciences (NAS) committee seeking improvement in relations between scientists and the government yesterday said there is need for improvement in the federal government's science grant allocation and accountability procedures...
Bell, Bloch and Leaf have been working on the NAS committee, funded by a consortium of government and private donors, appointed this summer to investigate the relationship between the federal government, scientists and research institutions. The committee of scientists, administrators and businessmen will probably report its findings within 12 to 18 months...
...defending the rights of the oppressed-but not by political means that have more in common with Marxism than Christianity. Many local Jesuits disagree that any kind of Marxism is their goal. Says Father Jon Sobrino, who teaches at the Universidad Centroamericana José Siméon Cañnas in San Salvador: "We Jesuits have not chosen an ideology. The basic problem is reality itself. When you see corpses or children starving, what makes you react is reality, not some abstract idea...
...Murray Todd, executive director of the National Academy of Sciences' (NAS) commission on international relations, said yesterday the NAS is deferring "all high level and group activities that are already scheduled" between the United States and Russia...