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Matthew S. Meselson, professor of Biology, said yesterday that he and Robert W. Baughman, a graduate student in Chemistry, have discovered traces of the poison, dioxin, in fish and crustaceans caught in South Vietnamese rivers and coastal waters...
They found that dioxin is especially dangerous because of its stability and cumulative toxicity, Meselson said. "As a result of these properties, the poison may pass down the food chain until eventually a human could eat an animal with a high accumulated level of dioxin," he noted...
...danger of such increasingly vocal unrest is that it could poison relations between states and thus slow down the pace of European integration. But many scholars argue plausibly that ethnic differences do not so much foreclose the future as point the way to it. Swiss Philosopher Denis de Rougement looks for a gradual emergence of new "communities of mutual interests" that transcend established frontiers. One such community might be the region bounded by Lyons and Grenoble in France and Geneva and Lausanne in Switzerland-four cities already united by proximity, language (French) and common commercial interests. Says De Rougement: "Europeans...
...butter, the stuff used to be whipped up in the late 1700s by Harvard undergraduates to supplement the rather gross fare of the pre-Central Kitchen era. In those days, the story goes, you might catch a glimpse some night of students bearing a steaming kettle of this poison on a pole to wherever the Hasty Pudding Club was assembled for the evening. Everybody would then fill themselves to the accompaniment of mock trials staged by club members. Fortunately, both the College cusine and the Hasty Pudding have matured, although at times both still seem rather half-baked...
Look-Ins are the creation of Goeran Gentele, the Met's director-elect who was killed in a car crash last summer. Studies of their efficacy aren't available yet, but Gentele's famous dictum--"you've got to poison their minds young"--remains impressive. A few weeks ago, for example, a beaming little girl of about a year and a half wandered into the Crimson's newsroom and proceeded to disrupt things. She was wearing a button, nearly as big as she was, and the button said "Solidarity with Heroic Viet-namese Freedom Fighters." Gentele, a Swede, would have...