Barbara McClintock Nobel Prize Pioneer in Genetics
Barbara McClintock, 81, becomes the first woman to win a Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine alone for discovering jumping genes. She works at her Long Island Sound laboratory with maize, seven days a week, pursuing inherited factors that color kernels.
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Barbara McClintock
Long Island Sound
Miss McClintock
National Academy of Sciences
Reagan Aims for Life-Long Official Information Contracts
The Reagan administration requires top officials with access to high level data to sign contracts committing all writings released to the public to be submitted for government review for life. Critics say this is peacetime censorship that would let the government control information and undermine First Amendment freedoms.
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National Security Council
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No Cause For Panic In Nuclear Debate Of Emissions
The text argues that alarm over the greenhouse effect would rise if tied to nuclear plants, but experts warn that current fears stem from burning conventional fuels like coal, oil, and gas, keeping crowds calm.
Thought For Today Wise Man Changes His Mind
A Spanish proverb about wisdom notes that a prudent person revises beliefs when needed, while a fool holds rigidly to prior views. The quote underscores adaptability and open-minded judgment.
Medicine as art and the nursing of physician intuition
A layman argues medicine remains an art despite heavy training as a science. He criticizes admission biased to grades, praises family practitioners for intuition and trust, and urges future doctors to guard empathy over mere data, speaking from a Miami address to the American Academy of Family Practice.
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Miami
American Academy of Family Practice
Great Britain Offers Lesson
For Americans, a trip to the United Kingdom is an education in how to handle inflation unemployment and productivity decline. The British experience mirrors U.S. trends with high welfare costs and weak investment, while Thatcher pursues market reforms amid persistent budget gaps and voter support hints.
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United Kingdom
Great Britain
M.P
Christopher Hawkins
North Sea
Britain
Thatcher
U.K
United States
Danton and Robespierre in Our Time
A review of Andrzej Wajda's Danton and Robespierre in Our Time discusses the Polish filmmaker's examination of Danton a life loving revolutionary and Robespierre a rigid ideologue. The piece notes the film's political symbolism the portrayal of Moderates versus Extremists and its argument that both leaders are complex humans not monsters.
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New York City
Danton
Robespierre
Abel Gance
Napoleon
Andrzej Wajda
Lech Walesa
Gen. Jaruzelski
Wajda
Paris
Mitterrand
Walesa
Andropov
Jaruzelski
Michelet
Paris Style and Stereotypes Through a Foreign Gaze
The writer muses on Paris chic and French bearing from Hemingway to Miterrand era politics. He notes the French relish for style and language, their guarded friendliness to tourists, and a pride that shapes French conduct and humor in daily life.
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Paris
Hemingway
Fitzgerald
Mitterrand
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