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...story revealing that Jaye Davidson, the "female" lead in The Crying Game, was a man (hardly a scoop, since Davidson had won an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor). Furious, Harvey called a top editor 18 times in one day in an unsuccessful attempt to keep the nonsecret a secret...
...paid for it. "The principal problem is with analysis," says Morton Abramowitz, a former chief of intelligence and research at the State Department, now president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington. "A major question is whether we're making use of the vast amount of nonsecret information. There are so many people who know more than the government does...
Twice a Nobel prizewinner (chemistry 1954, peace 1962), California Biochemist Linus Pauling has claimed a breakthrough in treatment of the common cold. His nonsecret: vitamin C, which was isolated in 1928. The vitamin-also called ascorbic acid-has never received its due, Dr. Pauling says, partly because the drug companies cannot make enough money out of it and partly because doctors generally prescribe doses just large enough to prevent scurvy. In a paperback, Vitamin C and the Common Cold (W.H. Freeman & Co.; $1.95), Pauling recommends a daily 250-to-10,000 milligrams to keep colds from being caught, plus...
...dispute at M.I.T. only marginally involves the school's on-campus research, which received $17 million from the Pentagon last year. This is generally thought of as "clean" money, since it finances nonsecret research-into computer technology, for example. The issue, rather, is what to do about the off-campus Instrumentation and Lincoln labs, which get the lion's share of the Pentagon cash. They operate with so much independence that M.I.T. administrators exercise virtually no control over what projects they undertake. Although they do some civilian work on space projects, including Apollo moon flights, the "special labs...
...academic freedom. Scientists argue that university regulations forbidding them to undertake such work are equally a violation. Pittsburgh's John Horty, who directed a classified project to collect U.S. treaties and documents affecting defense agreements with other nations-and found the techniques equally applicable to the assembling of nonsecret documents-believes that academic freedom is supposed to "guard against emotionalism." He thinks "temporarily unpopular research" should be protected against the "emotionalism" of those who oppose...