Word: behavior
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Associate Editor Burton Pines, who wrote the narrative of this latest crisis, agrees: "The symbolic significance we attach to what the Soviets are doing is as important as the objective facts. The mere perception of power determines the behavior of nations as often as the use of power." Pines was one of five writers assigned to the cover package by Friedrich and World Senior Editor John Elson. TIME correspondents cabled details of the developments from Moscow, Washington and Havana, where Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott had been covering the Conference of Nonaligned Countries. Talbott found no shortage of soldierly looking Soviets...
...Biology and Biochemistry Departments "tend to be deeply engrossed in research" and have difficulty translating their activity into a language they think undergraduates can understand. But Wilson's Science Core course, Science B-15, "Evolutionary Biology," proposes to do just that by integrating current research on social behavior in organisms into an introductory biology course...
...Core committee on Sciences last spring ruled that Science Core courses must include a laboratory section. "Evolutionary Biology" includes four lab sessions, each devoted to an area of specialized current research. One session will cover behavior hormones and reproduction in lizards, based on present research by David P. Crews, assistant professor of Biology...
Repeated rapidly-9,000 times an hour -and at very low volume, the words are barely audible to shoppers and employees. But they do register in some deep recess of the brain and apparently influence behavior...
...down politicians and advertisers who wanted to hire him, and explains that his black boxes include a "fail safe" mechanism that prevents clients from playing anything but the message he has programmed into them. Still, many Americans would undoubtedly be outraged by any secret at tempts to influence their behavior for better or worse. As Aryeh Neier, former executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union, puts it, "People have a right to go about their business without being subjected to manipulation they don't even know about...