Word: pill
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...aggressiveness is as important as spurring his intelligence. Harvard Neurosurgeon Vernon Mark advocates a nongenetic approach. "There are basic brain mechanisms that will stop violent behavior, and we are born with them," Mark asserts. To tap those mechanisms, scientists would like to develop an anti-aggression pill (estrogens, or female hormones, have already been used experimentally to inhibit aggressive behavior). Until they do, Mark and two Harvard colleagues?Psychiatrist Frank Ervin and Surgeon William Sweet?are fighting aggression by using surgery to destroy the damaged brain cells that sometimes cause violence in people with specific brain disease. Typical of their...
...humanness" at the time of implantation of the zygote in the uterus, or even later in the fetal development. It is a question critical to the general debate. If ethicists establish humanness at fertilization, then birth control methods that prevent implantation, such as the intrauterine device or "morning-after" pill, would be considered methods of abortion rather than contraception...
...Bitter Pill. The police raids constituted the latest, most serious development in an increasingly bitter confrontation between some South African churchmen and the racist government of Premier Johannes Vorster. While Vorster has repeatedly warned clerics to stay out of "politics," clergymen, especially a number of outspoken Anglicans, have steadfastly refused to ignore apartheid. Two events late last year exacerbated the conflict. After the World Council of Churches voted a $200,000 grant to "antiracist" liberation groups in Africa and elsewhere (TIME, Oct. 5), W.C.C. member churches refused to accede to Vorster's demand that they quit the organization. Then...
...showdown has been directed not so much against a denomination as such as against individual critics and anti-apartheid organizations like the Christian Institute. Aggressively promoting multiracial cooperation, the institute has been a particularly bitter pill for the government; it is led by Christiaan F. Beyers Naude, an exile from the country's dominant, pro-apartheid Dutch Reformed Church...
When Pope Paul VI confirmed the ban on use of the Pill and all other "artificial" birth control methods in his 1968 encyclical Hwnanae Vitae, a number of national bishops' conferences softened the blow. They viewed the encyclical as an ideal to be encouraged rather than an absolute restriction to enforce in all cases. And many government and private agencies went ahead with campaigns to limit population. But Pope Paul is not so easily contradicted. Now. acting through his Secretary of State, Jean Cardinal Villot, 65, he has begun a quiet counterattack, attempting to marshal Catholic forces against...