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...summer of 1948, 700 Soviet biologists met in conference to discuss solemnly the theory of Lysenkovism. Geneticist T. D. Lysenko contended that "acquired characteristics"-those attributed to environment-can be inherited. This meant that Communist education could more or less create a new species of human being, and then transmit the features to future generations...
...Lowell Institute Broadcasting Council Station will transmit the program at 89-7 cycles FM from 6 to 8:30 p.m. this Sunday night...
...limited possibilities, and sooner or later exhaust them. Man has an unlimited field of possibilities ... He has developed a new method of evolution: the transmission of organized experience ... which supplements and largely overrides the automatic process of natural selection ..." As soon as man acquired the ability to accumulate and transmit knowledge, he bested all his rivals and possible rivals on earth...
...private organization, President Burkhart reasons, can do this sort of job more efficiently than any government. And, if its workers are dedicated Christians as well as good technicians, they will be able to transmit to Indians, Africans and Burmese their faith in a Christian and democratic way of life more effectively than most orthodox missionaries...
...Abner Wolf and David Cowen could not fix the cause of death, but they found some puzzling little organisms in the brain. They were protozoa, to be sure, but what kind? Not until two years later (1939), when the two doctors had a similar ease and were able to transmit the baby's disease to laboratory mice, could they be sure what it was: toxoplasmosis. The luckless youngster on Eighth Avenue, her illness posthumously diagnosed, was the first case in U.S. medical history...