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...second straight year a Harvard professor of government, who is considered one of the nation's leading political scientists, was denied election yesterday to the prestigious National Academy of Sciences (NAS...
...rejection by Academy members of Samuel P. Huntington, Eaton Professor of the Science of Government, culminates more than a year of debate on the scientific merit of Huntington's work and on the legitimacy of social science as a part of the the NAS...
Huntington received the necessary number of mailed ballots to be considered for election at the Academy's annual meeting, held yesterday in Washington. But at the meeting a challenge to his nomination was raised, and his election was blocked after a floor fight before 530 NAS members that one Academy member said went to the "bitter...
LAST MONTH THE NATIONAL ACADEMY of Sciences (NAS) issued a report that called for increased sex education and endorsed the use of condoms. Last week a commission at the Academy chaired by Daniel D. Federman '49, dean for students and alumni at Harvard Medical School, released a two-year study again calling for "aggressive public education" on sexuality and the free or low-cost distribution of contraceptives. The first report concerns AIDS, the second, adolescent pregnancy...
...federal government should be the first audience for the report. The conclusions announced last week by the working arm of the NAS--the Congressionally chartered National Research Council--are a welcome dissenting voice from a government that has failed to respond adequately to the AIDS epidemic and to an equally alarming epidemic of teen pregnancy. As an author of the AIDS study commented, there is "very little knowledge about sexual practices...