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Sociobiology may apply to ants, but your article reveals it as just another pop simplification when it is extended to people. Rational theories of human behavior have to be flexible enough to account for both a Stevie Wonder, able to triumph over being blind as well as black, and a Patty Hearst, so much a creature of her environment that she seems to have no genes...
...trusted to cover news with any responsibility, and their local news directors are extensions of their sales forces." The way to draw many of their viewers to ABC, Arledge suggests, is to have "responsible but vigorous and fresh journalism." Over at the other networks, people wonder how responsible ABC will be once it gets more vigorous and fresh...
...same time, Carter has greatly alarmed both traditional friends and adversaries abroad and raised serious questions about his aims and methods in foreign policy. In the U.S., quite a few members of the mainly Democratic foreign policy Establishment are beginning to wonder whether he is really up to the job. Nothing serious has been lost so far and much may yet be gained from Carter's obvious good intentions, his openness to new ideas and his ability to inspire those who see or hear him. But the general pattern of his foreign policy actions creates genuine cause for worry about...
...When doctors hear about me, they wonder if they have chosen the right course," says Doctor-Turned-Businessman Armand Hammer. The celebrated 79-year-old Russophile and art collector is the chairman of Occidental Petroleum. He graduated from Columbia Medical School 56 years ago, but has never practiced medicine. While still a medical student, Hammer made his first million selling Pharmaceuticals. Later he worked in the Soviet Union, eventually building up a rich import-export business with the Soviets. At 59, he took over Occidental. Figuring that he would recycle some oil money into his original profession, Hammer last week...
...fast new U.S. machines are called, Moscow is designing a large computer, specified the BESM-10. Supposedly, it will be capable of 15 million operations per second. But although it is supposed to come into use this year, it has not appeared so far, and some Western experts wonder whether the BESM-10 has run into problems. If so, the Cyber 76 could conceivably be used to help solve them. Says Szuprowicz: "It is very difficult to believe they would not get some helpful ideas from Cyber 76 once they had it installed on their territory...