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...Forest Service officials first began to notice a peculiar yellowing of needles on on the the San Bernardino trees in the 1950s. Not until the early 1960s was the cause of the disease traced to smog. "Photosynthesis is inhibited almost immediately," says Paul Miller, a plant pathologist with the Forest Service at Riverside. In controlled experiments, smog concentrations of as little as .15 ppm. caused a 20% inhibition of photosynthesis within 60 days. The reality is grimmer. On hot summer days, the smog level in the San Bernardino forest can reach .5 ppm. The average is .20 to .25 - enough...
...affected by smoking. Most of all, young people have responded to the persuasive antismoking television commercials, which the FCC has ordered all stations to carry. "People used to call their cigarettes 'cancer sticks,' but they never really believed it before," says Dr. Charles Dale, a Chicago pathologist. "Now their kids are bugging them, so they can't even smoke in peace any more...
Freeing Color. To hear the artist tell it, the most interesting thing about his painting is the way in which it "liberates color." The son of a pathologist, he was educated at Black Mountain College, where he studied under another symphonist of structured color, Josef Albers. He became disenchanted with the way in which second-generation Abstract Expressionists were covering their canvases with empty, bombastic gestures. The trouble, he decided, was that they were using their brushes to draw, and "drawing contains assumptions of what you are painting about. It has to do with identifying things, with graphic representation...
...racist environment," says Manhattan's Dr. John V. Cordice Jr., "a Negro is better received where there's a minimum of contact with patients. For example, a radiologist-all he does is look at X rays. A pathologist is acceptable because he deals only with cadavers and specimens. A pediatrician is pretty well received; somehow, it's all right for a black man or black woman to handle children-an extension of the black-nanny syndrome...
Died. Lord Howard Florey, 69, Oxford pathologist who shared the 1945 Nobel Prize with Sir Alexander Fleming and Dr. Ernst Chain for isolating and developing penicillin; of a heart attack; in Oxford. Though penicillin was discovered by Fleming in 1928, the mold was considered little more than a biological curiosity for a decade until the Australia-born Florey and a team of Oxford researchers reduced it to a pure, yellowish powder that destroyed all kinds of bacteria, saving thousands of lives during World War II and untold millions since...