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Some life scientists see even greater perils in man's new knowledge. "I would hate to see manipulation of genes for behavioral ends," warns Stanford Geneticist Seymour Kessler, "because as man's environment changes, and as man changes his environment, it is important to maintain flexibility." Professor Gerald McClearn of the Institute for Behavorial Genetics at the University of Colorado agrees, explaining that a gene that is considered "bad" now might become necessary for survival in the event of drastic environmental change. "It is foolhardy to eliminate genetic variability," he says. "That is our evolutionary bankroll, and we dare...
...after Kennedy's death. Nixon has ruled out a Warren-style review of the Calley case itself, but there are suggestions inside the Administration and out that a comparably nonpartisan commission explore the whole question of American conduct of the Viet Nam War. Some Americans are skeptical; Harvard Sociologist Seymour Martin Lipset thinks that it would not reduce national tensions simply because "there are no neutral people left in the country." Still, Americans must find some means of confronting what they have done to themselves in Viet Nam and what they will continue to do to themselves until U.S. involvement...
...full of elderly widows," he says. "It makes it quiet, all right.") After graduation in 1972, Cox will enter the Army with an ROTC commission earned at Princeton; following that, he plans to practice public-service law. This summer he will work in the office of Whitney North Seymour Jr., U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York...
Recessions always tend to restrain passions as much as spending. "One effect of unemployment," says Harvard Sociologist Seymour Martin Lipset, "is to make a man concentrate on his personal problems. If he is unemployed or worried about his job, personal problems take priority. He doesn't have the psychic energy to think about society." Many of the McCarthy liberals and peace-movement activists have become silent since they lost their jobs as laboratory scientists or systems analysts in the defense and research plants along Boston's Route 128. Despite the General Motors siege, there were fewer strikes last...
That was one of the rare occasions in his life when Dan George needed anyone's help. A descendant of six generations of Tse-lal-watt chiefs, Dan George as a boy hunted on Seymour Mountain with bow and arrow (he scoffs at "white Indian" westerns: "No Indian holds a bow perpendicular. You must shoot with the bow horizontal so the arrow doesn't curve to the ground"). He helped his father log the tribe's timber and often paddled a canoe into Vancouver for supplies. Baptized a Roman Catholic like his father and grandfather, Dan George...