Word: conductivity
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Geschwind said the laboratory will conduct studies comparing normal and dyslexic brains, using brains willed to the Medical School's new "brain bank," in hopes of discovering new treatments...
...Mobile, Ala., he was frequently beaten with a stick by his mother. At 17, he dropped out of school and began getting into frequent scrapes with the police. He was arrested for assault, carrying concealed we and disorderly conduct. 'He became an Evangelical Christian, then a Nazi finally, a Ku Klux Klansman. At one point he told friends that he was going to join Ian Smith's Rhodesian army. Instead Joseph Paul Franklin, now 30, continued to drift from state to state, driven by twin passions: his love of rifles and his hatred of blacks...
...immediate area, employing more than 10,000 faculty members. In Boston, it would be impossible to throw a party without a dozen professors showing up. In Washington, professors are invisible, out of it, lower than lobbyists, far lower than journalists. Of course, parties are places for the conduct of business, not discourse. That is just as well. Henry James romantically regarded Washington as the "city of conversation." It would be interesting to see what he would make of the arcane political chitchat that fills lunch hours at Sans Souci and the Madison...
...other big problem in Congress is that party responsibility does not have any real meaning any more, and that is tragic. Not that political parties should be free of criticism, but powers in the conduct of foreign policy, though his abuse of those same the parties provide a way for the public to see who is good and who is evil and who does a job and who does not do a job. The parties today are really more or less impotent, and if you do not have party responsibility, the system does not work...
...critics are alarmed that records can be made to "lie" legally. "You can't change history and pretend it never happened," says Douglas Watts, staff counsel for the American Newspaper Publishers Association. Expungement may hinder police trying to develop leads. It also could be used to shield police conduct from public scrutiny. Asks Jack Landau, head of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press: "How can you monitor the behavior of law enforcement if records are sealed?" Some businessmen, moreover, have legitimate grounds for digging into the past of prospective employees. Concedes University of Nebraska Law Professor Richard...