Word: research
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While much of the testimony has been confused and contradictory, the investigation into the capture of U.S.S. Pueblo seems to have settled on its villain. Witness after witness has portrayed Lieut. Stephen R. Harris, officer in charge of the ship's supersecret research center spaces, as incompetent or cowardly, or both...
More immediately troublesome to Union was the claim that it had seriously underreported the quantity spilled by the eleven-day gusher. Alan Allen, an engineer for General Research Corp. of Santa Barbara, meticulously plotted the spread and flow of the oil. Union had said that the crude escaped at the rate of 500 bbl. per day. By Allen's calculations, which he calls "ridiculously conservative," the ruptured well was spewing out at least...
...befits a huge industry, U.S. medicine has an impressive plant, and many of its facilities are indeed outstanding. In research and medical technology, the U.S. amazes and leads the world. A newborn baby with a defective heart can probably get the best care at Manhattan's Lenox Hill Hospital, which operates an elaborate unit exclusively for pediatric cardiology. For surgery on such a baby's heart, U.S. surgeons are preeminent. So are the surgeons who operate on older patients' arteries. For trouble in the brain's arteries, researchers at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center have helped to develop a magnetic probe...
...ington psychologist, Robert B. Lockard, suggests in American Psychologist that the laboratory lessons may be invalid, and that the rats do not prove much about people. The reason is that the albino rat-a mutant form of the wild brown rat-is a genetic monster of dubious value to research. Caged and bred in captivity for more than a century, it is a man-made abomination-fat and degenerate, faithful neither to its wild ancestry nor to its laboratory role as a distorted mirror of man. "Theories are tested upon it," says Lockard. "Students are trained with it, and generalizations...
Harvard SACC is currently circulating petitions supporting the March 4 protest, and is trying to convince Harvard scientists to stop their research that day and attend the teach-in at M.I.T...