Word: norwegians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...biggest push came from the appearance last winter of a 197-page book, The Limits to Growth, which avowedly aims at "a Copernican revolution of the mind" (TIME, Jan. 24). It was prepared by a team of 17 scientists, ranging from an Iranian population expert to a Norwegian specialist on pollution. The study was begun by Professor Jay Forrester, an M.I.T. pioneer in computer analysis of likely future trends, and completed by his 30-year-old protege, Dennis L. Meadows, a business professor who has recently moved from M.I.T. to Dartmouth. The study was sponsored, endorsed and publicized...
...reader to look twice? Bahr and Harden's answer: a nude with a difference-"fat but nice." They assigned the job of finding a model to Hamburg Photographer Christian von Alvensleben. After weeks of searching, a friend introduced him to Gerd Tinglum, 20, a Norwegian art student who came to Germany four years ago as an au pair girl. She agreed to pose...
...forward tank of the Norwegian tanker Tamano ruptured on Saturday and 40,000 gallons of industrial fuel spilled into the Bay. The mishap occured when the tanker, attempting to reach an anchorage, struck Soldier's Ledge, which rises to within 40 feet of the surface...
...U.C.L.A., Noah came under the care of a team of psychologists led by a Norwegian specialist in "operant conditioning"-a therapy similar to animal training. Noah was forced to respond to simple commands. His successes were rewarded with Fritos; his failures were met sternly. Enforced hunger and low-voltage prods were part of the program...
...euphoric highs. Sometimes, Bejerot says, it is even possible to trace waves of addiction to particular carriers. In 1949, for example, he discovered that a small group of Stockholm bohemians was responsible for a surge of amphetamine use that eventually produced 12,000 new Swedish addicts. Similarly, eleven Norwegian drug users deported from Sweden in 1967 stimulated 100 new addiction cases in Norway when they returned home...