Word: progressive
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Soviet Union likes to boast that it is the land of the future. Yet in the one technology most essential for industrial and scientific progress, the country is far behind. Western experts believe Soviet computer development trails the U.S.'s by three to ten years, depending on the segment of technology, and the gap is not closing...
...other reality is just as disturbing. Without legal and affordable abortion, many lives in progress are hopelessly ruined; the unwanted children very often grow up unloved, battered, conscienceless, trapped and criminal. A whole new virus of misery breeds in the accidental zygotes...
...concepts are startling?and disturbing. Conflict between parents and children is biologically inevitable. Children are bora deceitful. All human acts?even saving a stranger from drowning or donating a million dollars to the poor?may be ultimately selfish. Morality and justice, far from being the triumphant product of human progress, evolved from man's animal past, and are securely rooted in the genes...
...spread beyond Harvard?where it originated?dividing faculty departments and disrupting academic conventions. Angry opponents denounce "soso biology" as reactionary political doctrine disguised as science. Their fear: it may be used to show that some races are inferior, that male dominance over women is natural and that social progress is impossible because of the pull of the genes...
...past three decades, the People's Republic of China has sought to apply Chairman Mao's idea by demanding that its scientists be politically orthodox and by subjugating all scientific research to the solution of the country's most pressing national problems. China has made impressive progress in increasing agricultural and industrial output and providing health care for its 850 million people. But. says a contingent of scientists from New York City's Rockefeller University, the Chinese have realized these auspicious goals by ignoring basic research almost entirely. As a result, the Rockefeller researchers revealed...