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Society has grown so complicated that there is renewed interest in the possibility of a "science court" that might deal impartially with arcane controversy. It has grown so technical that some lawyers wonder whether ordinary electors can still adequately function as jurors. Says Attorney Gary Ahrens, a professor at the University of Iowa: "Practically nothing is commonsensical any more." Surely the spectacle of the public making decisions in semidarkness is an affront to common sense...
...those nice things about the human race? The first question is simpler than the second. Lewis Thomas, 65, is a doctor and an administrator (currently president and chief executive officer of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City). He is a biologist, a researcher and a professor. He is a published poet and, quite possibly, the best essayist on science now working anywhere in the world...
...administration. He wound steadily up the helix of professional advancement: research at Johns Hopkins, teaching at Tulane and the University of Minnesota. Back in New York, he moved through lower posts to become dean of the New York University medical school. In 1969 Thomas moved to Yale as a professor and chairman of the medical school's department of pathology; three years later he was named dean of the medical school. He left after a year at that to take charge of the Sloan-Kettering complex in Manhattan, one of the most important cancer research and treatment centers...
Laurence Wylie, 69, may be the only French-language teacher who starts his classes with a hard round of calisthenics. That tactic follows, with precise Gallic logic, from his basic premise: le français, in fact all language, is spoken mostly with the body. Says Wylie, a retired professor of French civilization at Harvard: "Just learning the rules of grammar and vocabulary isn't really enough...
George M. Hanfmann, Hudson Professor of Archaelogy and curator emeritus of ancient coins at the Fogg, said yesterday "we're rejoicing to have them back--they're a great asset to the University...