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Dietz used the plan at various public hearings to demonstrate what he suggested could be done to the area. The plan also envisions the construction of a path through the graveyard at Church St. and Mass. Ave., as a shortcut to the Square...
...result, over the years, Americans have grown complacent about the theoretical basis of their technological progress. By neglecting basic search, we are attempting a very advised shortcut. "In short, we have mortgaged the future of science in our eagerness to exploit its past," says Piel. He knows that technology is no "miracle...
...search for a cancer vaccine has largely been a painstaking, systematic chore of isolating some agent that might produce cancer-killing antibodies in human patients. Last week Swedish Immunologist Dr. Bertil Bjorklund announced that he was taking a shortcut. Rather than waiting for time-consuming analysis, he will inoculate humans with a complex substance that has produced favorable cancer antibody responses using rabbits and horses. Over a seven-month period. Bjorklund vaccine will be injected into 100 Swedish volunteers between 60 and 70, an age group of high cancer incidence. At the end of the year, if the volunteers show...
...tone. Then, examining it closer, one finds a great deal of fiddling around and many squiggles which are without meaning. If these comprise a kind of patina they may or may not succeed. Unfortunately, in many of Shimizu's things they are more than patina. They constitute a shortcut, however unconscious, a device which meets a multitude of problems without solving them...
...prosperity-with all the rest of the world sinking lower and lower in its standards of living. There are many ways in which we can use our influence to make certain that other peoples recognize the virtues of a free, competitive capitalistic system rather than to take the shortcut-the spurious and false road that is offered them by the Communistic ideology . . . And so we must carry not only a material message to the world of what kind of enterprise we have-the kind of system-can do for a people. We must carry those moral values, spiritual values...