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Climaxing a two-day symposium at Harvard on the medical consequences of a nuclear attack on Boston, American physicians yesterday urged President Carter and Soviet Chairman Leonid I. Brezhnev to reject nuclear warfare as a rational possibility and to ban the use of nuclear weapons...
Salvador E. Luria, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Nobel laureate in medicine, and three major Harvard physicians signed the petition and spoke at the symposium, organized by July to raise public and professional awareness of nuclear warfare...
...comment was typical of attempts to relieve the tension at a symposium on "The Medical Consequences of Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear War" held in the Science Center this past weekend. The title is somewhat misleading: military experts and political analysts, not doctors, comprised about half the speakers...
...specifically criticized a Third World symposium at the Law School last year that presented a human rights award to the Libyan ambassador. "Jews here have inexcusably been treated as second-class citizens," Dershowitz said...
Thomas' "error," a word he traces back to an old root meaning "to wander about, looking for something," occurred in 1970, when he put together a short, casual talk on the phenomenon of inflammation and what it might represent as a biological process. He delivered it at a symposium held at Upjohn Co.'s Brook Lodge in Michigan. A member of the audience passed a copy of the speech to Dr. Franz Joseph Ingelfinger, then the editor of the New England Journal of Medicine. Ingelfinger had already roiled the academic waters by warning potential contributors that medical research...