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...Francisco, the District Court of Appeals upheld an award of $8,000 to the widow of a Christian Scientist who died of injuries after an automobile accident. The defense claimed that, because he dismissed his doctor, the victim died of negligence. The Court's decision: an injured person may choose any kind of care he wants...
...very convincing if a little too neat. Every war has to have its ideological devils. In World War I, Nietzsche and Schopenhauer were elected. This time, it seems, a first-rate scientist and a first-rate musician are to be blamed equally with a class-conscious revolutionist...
...most important basic medical discovery of the present generation"; - so one scientist called it. He referred to the theory that mice may get cancer from a virus in their mothers' milk.* This was reported in Science last week by Geneticist John Joseph Bittner, of the Jackson Memorial Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Me., where scientists have worked on this problem for more than seven years...
Bart Bok's "A. Scientist's Faith" is a refreshing, if somewhat naive addition to the magazine's series of Harvard credos. Professor Bok has led a very full and active life, absorbed in his work as an astronomer, a teacher, and a citizen. This life is reflected in his writing. But when he discusses the world at war and his attitude towards it, his explanation seems so much oversimplified as to be untenable, and his faith in progress by cooperation seems a little out of touch with harsh realities...
Last week doctors hailed an old conqueror of the dread staphylococcus germ. Considered by some scientists a virus, by others an enzyme, this germ-eater is called bacteriophage. Strains of bacteriophage are found in the human intestinal tract, in urine, pus, blood and sewage. About 25 years ago, bacteriophage was first isolated by a British scientist from a dead germ colony. The mysterious substance that killed the bacteria was able to pass through a fine filter and infect other colonies. Some doctors soon dreamed of it as a universal panacea. (Sinclair Lewis dramatized this hope in his novel Arrowsmith.) Compared...