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...Harvard researchers are Donald T. Francis, research fellow in Pediatrics, and Myron E. Essex, associate professor of Virology. The third scientist involved in the study is W.D. Hardy, Jr. who works with the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City...
Land's idea is not new. The camera obscura (the word camera means room or chamber in Latin) was described by the Islamic scientist Alhazen, who died in A.D. 1039. It consisted of a darkened room with a small opening through which light passed to form an image on the wall opposite the aperture. Nor is using photography to make precise copies of paintings or other objets d'art a recent invention. Art reproductions have long been made by photographing paintings and then enlarging the pictures...
...HIRSCHMANN'S Exit Voice and Loyalty examines two ways of encouraging and circumventing dissent by artificially controlling the options available to dissidents. The Princeton social scientist argues that a system reinforces loyalties to itself and encourages dissenters to become reformers by limiting the means of exit available to its clients. Conversely, if the exit option is encouraged and reform stifled, dissidents leave the system to those who either do not care or cannot escape. Hirschmann's latter paradigm explains why public education in Boston has been so abysmal over the past 30 years. A leading force of innovation in national...
Radner plans to begin his research at Harvard with "a criticism of the textbook picture of economic man as a rational thinker," he said. Building on work of political scientist Herbert Sinon, Radner said he hopes to develop mathematical models of how people actually behave in complex economic situations...
...fact, the vote was the result of a carefully orchestrated, six-year effort to steer the association away from its see-no-evil stance. Psychiatric Terror, a book by British Psychiatrist Sidney Bloch and British Political Scientist Peter Reddaway, which describes more than 200 cases of Soviet psychiatric abuses, was timed to appear just before the meeting. Thirty-four Soviet dissidents, including Nobel Peace Laureate Andrei Sakharov, signed an appeal to the gathering asking for condemnation of Soviet psychiatric abuse. A few of the dissidents showed up at the meeting, including former Leningrad Psychiatrist Marina Voikhanskaya, who marched...