Word: spites
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jill Kinmont is described most accurately as a member of the active handicapped, those of us who contribute our best, in spite of our impaired mobility...
...social behavior?human as well as animal?has a biological basis. Its most striking tenet: human behavior is genetically based, the result of millions of years of evolution. Some sociobiologists go so far as to suggest that there may be human genes for such behavior as conformism, homosexuality and spite. Carried to an extreme, sociobiology holds that all forms of life exist solely to serve the purposes of DNA, the coded master molecule that determines the nature of all organisms and is the stuff of genes. As British Ethologist Richard Dawkins describes the role and drive of the genes, they...
Murky Impulse. For all of his close analyses of geopolitics, Revel offers a kind of sociobiological conclusion: people may prate of doing good for man kind but deep down they crave power. Others have an "unacknowledged desire to live under Stalinism, not in spite of what it is, but because of what it is." In other words, some need to rule, others to be ruled - a "murky impulse from which none of us is free...
...thalidomide scare, has been required by law to license only substances that are scientifically proved to be effective as well as safe. But the FDA can control only drugs that cross state lines; the states are free to license those that are manufactured and used within their boundaries in spite of federal disapproval. In fighting against the drugs, federal health officials have suffered from their loss of some public respect following the false swine-flu scare and the FDA'S proposed restrictions on the sale of saccharin. The agency acted after the laboratory rats which were fed huge quantities...
Still, the growing grass-roots movement may soon force the Government's hand. NCI'S acting director. Dr. Guy Newell, has already indicated that his agency may, in spite of the absence of any positive animal data - a prerequisite in the case of all other purported anticancer drugs - undertake a clinical test of Lae trile on humans, something it has steadfastly refused...