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...another delicate matter: Can racial profiling sometimes be justified? That depends on your definition, which requires a short jaunt into the history of the term. Most criminologists credit former FBI chief of research Howard Teten with inventing (or at least popularizing) the idea of "profiling." In the late 1950s, Teten was a rare combination of cop and scholar. He worked crime scenes for the San Leandro, Calif., police and took classes in psychology at Berkeley. Now 68, Teten says most departments back then gathered evidence at crime scenes only to find direct clues about a criminal--a dropped matchbox...
Long tainted with the romance and condescension of the word primitive, African works have come to be valued for their intrinsic beauty and artistic merit. In the 1950s, both the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art turned down an opportunity to acquire Nelson Rockefeller's extensive collection of non-European art, prompting Rockefeller to found the Museum of Primitive Art in New York City in 1954. By 1969 the Met had had a change of heart. In 1982 it opened its Rockefeller Wing, which absorbed the entire contents of the Museum of Primitive Art. Smaller galleries...
Hopkins officials note that hexamethonium was approved in the 1950s for treating high blood pressure, and was pulled only when other drugs proved more effective. "The decision to go ahead was based on the fact that this was not a new investigational drug," says Dr. Edward Miller, dean and CEO of Johns Hopkins Medicine. "On similar compounds, the FDA had ruled that their approval was not needed." Doctors, heal thyselves...
...Chinese see the Olympics as the coming-out party for a once-great civilization hit by a bad couple of centuries, starting with the Opium War and stretching through the 1950s when 20 million people starved to death. Now, they want a bit of credit both for the astonishing riches their hard work has produced and for their country's reemergence as a world power. Playing Olympic host, along with China's expected acceptance into the World Trade Organization, are two markers of the country's triumphant arrival. If some of that credit rebounds to a Communist Party that...
...well as other anonymous Tibetan painters and sculptors, created works of art in the service of their religion, expecting their contributions to bring them merits on the path to enlightenment. Art and skilled crafts have come virtually to a standstill since the Chinese occupation of Tibet in the early 1950s, so it is those works by anonymous artists that will, says the museum's director, Clara Wilpert, "help prevent Tibetan culture from being lost to the world forever...