Tidbits & Outrages
Tidbits & Outrages In Our Report, We Noted Excessive Nitrous Oxide at 105 m.p.h. U.S. Customs agents recently raided an automobile distributorship and seized 18 TVR sports cars. The zoomy little...
...He was told he would have to check first with a university review board that would judge whether the study would injure his fellow editors...
...Trying to confirm the ,?aby's i.dentity, hospital technicians analyzed her footprint...
...If your building has no heat, the booklet advises, "walk around a lot...
...Don't worry, I've had a lot of expenence wIth baby prints," the hospital's expert told the anxious mother...
...In Our Next Issue: Joseph Mobutu's Favorite Recipes There's a glossy new quarterly called Leaders...
...Mengele is Doing Everything He Can For Her The Washington Post recently reported on a woman whose infant girl might have been inadvertently switched with another newborn child...
...Cut eye holes in the bag...
...A Self-Help Booklet...
...In both instances, such prior review was said to be mandated by regulations of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare...
...To receive Leaders, one must be the Leader of a Nation, an International Company, or a World Religion...
...offers timely advice to those Who prefer not to freeze in the dark...
...The United States Public Health Service properly worried that research it supported might involve it in such scandals, so it created the review process...
...Helens, the White Hou se press office put out the word that "President Carter today became the first President ever to visit an active volcano...
...He explains: "The untold story of Chile is the great advances being made in the social area...
...When the embassy replied that there would be no motorcade in Venice, the Secret Service demanded an explanation, cabling: "We have always had a motorcade wherever the President went...
...And He'll Be The First President Ever To Run Against A Dinosaur Several days after . the eruption of Ml...
...Or, You Could Burn This Booklet A new publication from the Community Services Administration, No More Heat...
...These arrangements were for a strictly biomedical matter...
...Most important: "Be sure to cover your head...
...The zoomy little English roadsters, of which 125 were imported here last year, allegedly violate emissions-control standards...
...Paper is a good insulator, so a paper bag can serve to keep your head warm in an emergency...
...Glowing Reviews How government translates a legitimate concern into a bureaucratic regulation has never been better illustrated than in this account, by MITs Prof...
...in another, they did not get a syphilis cure they thought they were getting...
...And Dr...
...If you don't have a scarf, use a towel...
...Circulation is strictly limited," the magazine's contents page explains...
...Tidbits & Outrages In Our Report, We Noted Excessive Nitrous Oxide at 105 m.p.h...
...A professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was told that before he interviewed television officials about program sales or talked with government officials about broadcast spectrum allocations, he would have to submit his plan to a review board to assure.that those, officials would suffer no harm from his inquiries...
...review boards to act on all research on human subjects at institutions' receiving HE W funds, whether or not the particular study was funded by HEW...
...motorcade route...
...1 was involved in the Jonestown identification project.'.' Was Stymied When The Victim Refused to Cooperate with Police' On the same day a National Public Radio announcer informed us that "Franz Josef Haydn and his brother, composer Johann Michael, were contemporaries" and that "Haydn appeared periodically at concerts during his lifetime," we noted this blurb on the paperback version of Thomas pynchon's novel, V: "Proclaimed as the greatest book written by a living American author...
...Then in 1974, Congress passed an ambiguous law that HEW has interpreted as authorizing institutional...
...In one case, cancer cells were injected into them...
...they had nothing to do with speech or the press...
...I Lift My Burning Cross Beside the Golden Door Arizona's Department of Economic Security has been carrying a help-wanted listing for the Phoenix chapter of the Ku Klux Klan...
...Boring Company...
...There's a Nominal Extra Charge for Surveying True Davis's Parties A geological survey firm in suburban Washington calls itself the U.S...
...Then began a typical history of bureaucratic overkill...
...The regulations were extended from the Public Health Service to apply to all HEW grants for research on human subjects, not just to biomedical studies...
...Poor and seriously ill patients had been experimentally· given dangerous treatments without having been told...
...Running Time: 102 Minutes The San Quentin News for Friday, May 23, announced that the weekend movie would be "Escape from Alcatraz...
...The job pays $3.90 a hour to sew sheets, and the Klan is identified as "an equal opportunityemployer...
...Wrap your head with a scarf...
...embassy in Rome got a cable from the Secret Service asking for details of President Carter's...
...No subscriptions are available...
...A commissary in western Europe currently offers Elizabeth Arden's ?au Fraiche, Waterford crystal bowls, Haviland vases, and Moet champagne...
...The requirement of prior review of such research by an 'institutional review board' grows out of exposes of a couple of scandals in the mid-1960s...
...Ithiel de Sola Pool, of HEW at work: "A student journalist at The Harvard Crimson proposed to his tutor to write a description of the Crimson's editorial process...
...The lead story in a recent issue appears over the byline of General Augusto Pinochet Ugarte, president of Chile...
...The agents drove off with the contraband, an eyewitness observed, "after putting the tops down...
...Secret Service Frogmen Will Stroke Alongside The Presidential Gondola When preparations began for the Venice summit meeting, the U.S...
...Finally, the definition .of a 'human sl,lbject'h<\~beeh: expanded: The proposed revised regulations, published in the Federal Register last August, define a human subject as an individual about whom an investigatoro.btains data by 'interaction' or on whom he obtains 'identifiable infOrmation.' The same regulations will require review of all research on human subjects conducted 'by' or 'at' institutions that receive HEW funds...
...If your clothes are wet, "change into dry clothes...
...But We're Still Boycotting Stolichnaya for the Time Being Commissaries were established in American embassies to supply diplomats and their families with essential items unavailable in the host country...
...Don't look for it at your newsstand...
Vol. 12 • July 1980 • No. 5
