The following is a commentary on a feature appearing in the magazine Science and dealing with the population policy of Japan. Since World War ll Japan has made extensive use of abortions which have been promoted and encouraged by the national Eugenic Protection Law passed in 1948. In this way Japan has curbed its...
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Philadelphia was the site, in September 1848, of the first meeting of the American Association for the Promotion of Science - or so it was called in the notice appearing in the American Journal of Science. The orgrumation, an outgrowth of the more limited Association of American Geologists and Naturalists, was...
Regional Science is the name used to describe the practice and abstract musings of those scientists and technologists who are concerned with the technical problems of regional development and the interrelationship between regions. Of course many who work in the field recognize that the problems are not really all...
Three resolutions are being presented to the AAAS governing board to be voted upon at the annual meeting in Chicago on December 26th-30th. They were mailed to the committee on Council Affairs on November 23rd — one month in advance, as required to be put on their agenda. Last year, three similar resolutions were...
Two communications from Black Panthers who are presently political prisoners (Panther 21) were received in August. Ali Bey Hassan writes, " ... welcome to the just struggle for liberation of all the people ... we as a people who are struggling for survival, know that 'true freedom' cannot be given to; anyone. We...
This chart is a sample of contracts for incendiary munitions awarded between July 1, 1968 and June 30, 1970. For a more complete listing of contracts, see the chart of incendiary munitions in the first edition of the NARMIC pamphlet "Local Action/Research Guide No. 1; Weapons for Counterinsurgency;...
It should be easy to limit a woman's reproduction by sterilizing her at the birth of her nth child. Is this a shocking idea?... The Women's Liberation Movement may not like it, but control must be exerted through females. Divorce and remarriage play havoc with assigning responsibility to couples or to men. Biology...
That rampant inflation can be eliminated only by increasing the level of unemployment, with all the trauma so implied, has now become a commonplace, accepted but often not understood. The present accelerated inflation in the USA derives from two sources which appear to reinforce and strenghten one another. The first...
Why scientific prizes other than to reward those who have best carried out the role assigned to them by this society: to propagate and publicize the idea of a politically neutral and socially progressive science; to accept and amplify the ideology of elitism and expertise, and thus to aid the ruling class to mask the...
Unemployment in the United States rose to 5.5% in September of this year and there is every indication that it will increase further. The last time a similiar level of unemployment prevailed was in the early sixties before the escalation of the Vietnam War. However, in today's situation a new dimension has been added...