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DIED. SIDNEY GOTTLIEB, 80, eccentric chemist who ran some of the CIA's most shadowy operations, including the agency's infamous mind-control experiments of the 1950s and '60s; in Washington, Va. Gottlieb once said the paucity of U.S. knowledge on the effect of drugs "posed a threat of the magnitude of national survival" to explain the existence of MK-Ultra, a program that mandated dosing unsuspecting citizens with...
Most military analysts see the espionage, which took place in 1988, as possibly the worst since the Rosenbergs were executed in the 1950s for spying for the Soviet Union. More importantly, they argue, the theft represents a grave threat to national security...
...instinct to make X, Y statements violates the liberal tradition, where did it come from? The women's movement of the 1950s aimed to make the personal political and the student movements of the 1960s sought to transform university education in the image of a diverse student body. We were left with a strong legacy of personality in the academy, sometimes clouding the classical format of scholarship. So much energy was spent making education more responsive to specific student identities that undergraduates could not refrain from infusing the personal into the academic. We all became more aware...
...Burton, who is also executive vice president of Boston's Berklee College of Music, began his performance with a 10-minute improvisation to a Chick Corea composition honoring the be-bop style of 1950s pianist Bud Powell. Burton was accompanied by a Yamaha piano recording of Makuto Ozone, a Berklee graduate and frequent collaborator of Burton's now living in Japan...
Still, an ounce of prevention--or at least early detection--is worth a gallon of cancer-fighting drugs. Ever since the introduction in the 1950s of the Pap-smear test, which allows doctors to detect changes in the cervix before the tissue becomes malignant, both the incidence of cervical cancer and its death rate have plummeted in industrialized countries. (One out of two American women who develop invasive cervical cancer have not had a Pap test in the preceding five years.) Unfortunately, cervical cancer is more common in poorer parts of the world, and among underinsured and uninsured Americans...