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...Mellon Foundation recently granted funds to several other universities to support their general education programs. Northwestern, Syracuse and Johns Hopkins Universities all received large grants from the foundation last year...
Once able to locate the brain's opiate receptors, scientists can use their new strategies to draw a biochemical map of all the other neurotransmitters and to learn how chemicals plug into the brain. At Northwestern University, Aryeh Routtenberg is studying the chemical pathways of the brain's reward system, which when stimulated produces sensations of pleasure. If schizophrenics are indeed on a dopamine "high."; their internal reward systems may be constantly turned on. His University of Chicago colleague Richard J. Miller is tracing the link between dopamine and endorphins. At M.I.T., Richard Wurtman, who is studying various...
...determined, doctors would be able to adjust them by administering the appropriate drugs. Harvard's Dr. Seymour Kety insists that such tactics are far from mind control: "You can't manipulate an individual's behavior in the way the popular mind would like to think." But Northwestern's Routtenberg is not so sure. Says he: "These techniques are extremely powerful. Some day we're going to have to have a mind SALT talk...
...problem is further complicated by degree factories. One, called Pacific Northwestern University, offered a bachelor's degree in an assortment of subjects for $85, a master's for $140 and a doctorate for $195, as well as authentic-looking transcripts. P.N.U. was closed down last spring but not before creating 350 "graduates." Degree-mill operators can be indicted for mail fraud. Yet the legality of lying about academic accomplishments is murky. Employers could sue; but they usually just fire...
...Harvard beats Princeton in tennis, 5-4 (comparable to Northwestern beating Ohio State in football) to win the league title in legendary coach Jack Barnaby's last year...