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Ungar's experiments are similar. Using shock, he conditions rats to shun the darkness they normally prefer, then makes a broth of their brains. This he injects into the abdominal cavities of mice, which seem to react with a parallel unnatural aversion to the dark. Moreover, the more broth Ungar injects, the faster the mice seem to learn this fear. His theory: the memory message (that darkness should be avoided) is encoded by the rats' DNA-RNA mechanism into an amino-acid chain called a peptide, a small protein that Ungar managed to isolate and then synthesize. His name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: THE MIND: From Memory Pills to Electronic Pleasures Beyond Sex | 4/19/1971 | See Source »

...students so apathetic about this issue now, when they could work, within the system, by writing individual postcards and letters with their views as to the value of deferments? Congressmen and Senators watch their mail and react. This can result in decisions which can avoid riots and disorder...

Author: By W.l. LOWE Jr., | Title: The Mail DEFERMENTS | 4/1/1971 | See Source »

Durno emphasizes the fact that the destination of the puck is usually pre-determined by the position of the shooter and goalie. "No matter how good your reflexes are, there's no way you're going to react and glove a shot from ten feet out off a forward like Hynes or Cavanagh. You have to make it look like they were stupid to hit it right into...

Author: By Robert W. Gerlach, | Title: Durno's Style Avoids Flashy Saves | 3/16/1971 | See Source »

...become social drinkers. Their therapeutic imbibing was suggested by Psychologists Halmuth Schaefer and Mark Sobell, who disagree with the widely held belief that alcoholism is based on a physiological craving. Instead, they say, it is a psychological ailment, a learned response to stress. Unlike normal drinkers, who may react to anxiety by overeating, taking a walk around the block or hitting someone, the alcoholic has learned to find relief by reaching for a drink. What has been learned can be unlearned, Schaefer and Sobell insist. As proof, they point to their high cure rate, which is achieved with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Training to Be Sober | 3/15/1971 | See Source »

...Wrestling is not the type of sport where you just stand up in the middle of a locker room and deliver a speech. You have to know each wrestler individually, his personality, his moods," Coleman explained. "Some guys will react to the rah-rah; others you have to leave alone...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Coleman's Wrestling Has Its Own Rules | 3/10/1971 | See Source »

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