Word: retarding
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...believe in evolution but take issue with several statements in "Several Professors Testify in Scientific Creation Controversy" (12/1/81). First, how can providing equal time for the teaching of creationism "violate(s)...the academic rights of both teachers and students"? Presenting alternative views should further, not retard, academic freedom. Second, Professor Caroll M. Williams overstated the case when he claimed, "Creationists say that God placed fossil objects on earth in order to deceive mankind." The publications of the Institute for Creation Research (2716 Madison Ave., San Diego, CA 92116), a body of scientists with Ph.D.s in biology, chemistry, and geology...
...rule of his existence is to obey." There was a time, and a movement of which Fallows was a part, that hoped a new sort of society could be built, based not on the need to obey but on the right to choose. A military that prizes submission may retard the evolution of civilian society toward that goal (if, indeed, it is moving in that direction). At the very least, mindless obedience inside the military was responsible for the single event that most turned public opinion against the last war--the massacre...
...understand more about the disease process, we can do more to retard or prevent it." Cholesterol's role in heart disease should become clearer in 1983 when the first results from a National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute-sponsored study begun in 1976 become available...
Kirkland called on AFL-CIO members to "launch a grass-roots campaign throughout the country to make our voice heard in the halls of Congress." Otherwise, he said. "The administration's program will produce human suffering in the short run and retard economic growth enough to haunt us for years to come...
...induces deep sleep for short periods (90 min. at most) and might be an alternative to general anesthesia in surgery. Another drug, called only No. 5057, could improve memory and other mental functions by allowing more oxygen to reach brain cells. Roche Researcher Willy Haefely says this could help retard senility "or sharpen the mind of an executive suffering from a hangover." He concedes that "unfortunately, we will never be able to produce geniuses with drugs." But if Roche can develop another winner like Valium, it might ease much of the anxiety at company headquarters in Basel...