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...against it would never have been born. The invasion of Japan would have cost an untold number of lives on both sides. Many of those who died could have been the parents of those now asking that the U.S. apologize for dropping the A-bomb. EDGAR S. SPIZEL La Jolla, California...
...Salk was able to realize a lifelong dream when he became director of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies at a magnificent compound designed by Louis Kahn, on an oceanfront promontory in La Jolla, California. It attracted scientists in many fields to pursue biomedical research. In 1970, two years after divorcing his first wife, Salk married Francoise Gilot, the onetime companion and muse of Pablo Picasso and mother of two of Picasso's children...
...threats to the First Amendment, let's not lose sight of the sole reason film producers turn out gory movies and vitriolic lyrics: money. To expect entertainment moguls to stop peddling lucrative scum is just about as realistic as to expect hyenas to become vegetarians. R. Alex Kaseberg La Jolla, California AOL: ThorDoggie...
...Jonas Salk,the medical pioneer who developed the first polio vaccine, died of heart failure in La Jolla, Calif. this afternoon. Salk became a hero to millions of Americans in the 1950s when he ignored scientific doubters and used killed virus to develop the polio vaccine. Similarly, he ignored skeptics later in life when he tried to devise a vaccine-like treatment for AIDS...
...chemical found in cats, but possibly common to all mammals, that leads to peaceful drowsiness. If so, they may be able to produce a new sleeping aid that does not carry the usual "hangover" side-effects of grogginess, headache and exhaustion. Scientists at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, Calif., made the discovery by putting cats on a moving treadmill and depriving them of sleep for up to 18 hours, then studying changes in their chemistry once they drifted off to dreamland...