Word: warne
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...heartbreak of delivering a hopelessly defective infant. But the mother whose unborn baby is found to have one of several hereditary enzyme deficiencies has a more acceptable alternative, for medicine has developed techniques for treating many such illnesses. An amniotic test for fetal lung maturity, for example, has helped warn doctors when a child may be born with hyaline membrane disease, which blocks proper breathing. In those cases, birth can be delayed by sedation until tests show the baby ready to breathe on its own. Tests that permit prompt postnatal detection of PKU give doctors an opportunity to place babies...
...cannot wait for natural selection to change him, some scientists warn, because the process is much too slow. Yale Physiologist José Delgado likens the human animal to the dinosaur: insufficiently intelligent to adapt to his changing environment. Caltech Biophysicist Robert Sinsheimer calls men "victims of emotional anachronisms, of internal drives essential to survival in a primitive past, but undesirable in a civilized state." Thus, by his own efforts, man must sharpen his intellect and curb his aboriginal urges, especially his aggressiveness...
...York University finds that babies show a characteristic style (easy, difficult or slow-to-warm-up) from their earliest days. While he admits that this temperament may develop in the months after birth, he does not rule out the possibility that it is inborn. Other life scientists warn that "when we strive for equality of opportunity, we must not deceive ourselves about equality of capacity." For example, it is believed that genetic influence is especially great in such areas as mathematics, music and maybe acrobatics. Unless genetic potential is tapped by the environment, it will not develop: kittens prevented from...
This month many schools are considering which books to buy for next year, and salesmen are eagerly proclaiming that they have "the" curriculum. In fact, reading researchers now warn, no one technique works for everyone and schools should provide a broad range of materials. The major new options...
...whom is played by Johnny Weissmuller Jr. If Lucas creates an eerie universe, he also implies a rather damning thought; Haven't we been here before? Indeed we have, in the constructions of George Orwell and Aldous Huxley, who used their views of the future to warn the present. Despite his scenes of bland horror, Lucas offers the 25th century as a arch, campy place, a conception not satiric enough to be accepted as comedy and not quite insightful enough to be taken seriously...