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...learned-journal genre: discussion of control groups, statistical evidence, impressive phraseology ("the egg syndrome," "sensory food stimulator"), citations (Journal of Ontogenetic Orthopsychology), cross-references ("see 'Starving the Brain,' The Sciences, Nov. 1968"). The piece has elicited calls from doctors and scientists eager but unable to trace its sources. Small wonder: like everything else about the article, the sources are fictitious...
With a license from the Atomic Energy Commission, a radiologist named Harris Levine began some dangerous tinkering at his New Jersey home. Using the radioactive isotope americium 241, he devised a technique for spotting counterfeit money. The trick was to contaminate the engraver's ink with a trace of a radiation-free isotope, boron 10, activate it with americium and then pick out the bills that did not properly respond to detectors...
...talks at Lowell Lecture Hall, Trilling will trace the development of the idea of sincerity from its emrgence in the sixteenth century to the time it gave way to the idea of authenticity. He will try to explain the idea of authenticity "through description rather than definition," he said...
...obvious, waiting for the cynical poke: June of 1974 is, after all, still a long time off, and it is hard to know what Pusey will do between now and then. From a stylistic point of view. Pusey managed to conduct the whole affair without leaving the slightest trace of a mental truce between the forces who have opposed him. In his announcement, he lined himself squarely with "those great classes of graduates-largely from the 1920's and 1930's." and prepared to bow out with them...
There is a group of people on the CRIMSONnearly all of us now seniors-who came to a university and a newspaper which were unrecognizably different from those we sec today. The people who wrote editorials when we were freshmen proclaimed themselves-with no trace of embarrassment-to be the "New Middle." There was much easy talk then of the CRIMSON's role as "the University daily" which would "serve the University community...