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The U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C. [Photo courtesy of the Washington Area Convention and Visitors Bureau]
A Welcome to Washington
Richard Berendzen
Welcome to Washington, D.C., which is not only the space in the National Air and Space Museum, of medicine in
nation's capital but also a scientific capital, with a phenomenal the National Library of Medicine. To this end, the Washing-
number of key scientific and technological establishments ton Advisory Committee has included in the program many
located here, including the AAAS itself. Indeed, Washington opportunities for you to know this city. In addition, the
is a special place: the thriving center of national government Committee is sponsoring a symposium, "Space Science and
and international activity; a sleepy southern town turned Technology: Its Impact, Present and Future," which will
cosmopolitan; the Athens of the modern world and one of the bring together many leaders from the Washington governmen-
most active centers for science, science education, and sci- tal and scientific community.
ence policy in the world. It is a city where the past, present, We hope your visit here will give you a chance to know,
and future merge, where yesterday lives and tomorrow be- understand, and appreciate the city we call home. It is a city of
gins. tradition and transition, of beauty and blight, of power and
Thus, most appropriately, the theme of this 148th Nation- pleasure, but, most of all, it is a city that belongs to each of us.
al Meeting-Building Knowledge and Understanding: Endur- One should be forewarned about Potomac Fever, a rather
ing Assets of Society-fuses the past with the future. More unscientific malady. If you should begin to fall victim to its
than 160 symposia, falling under 20 general areas of interest, reach, fear not, for the disease is widespread and harmless.
will be held during the;5-day meeting. Lectures, films, exhib- No cure exists, but usually no cure is desired. In most cases,
its, conversations with professional peers and leaders will one symptom will remain with you-a genuine love of Wash-
augment the symposia. More than 5000 are expected to ington-and that symptom will undoubtedly ensure your
participate, and several thousand high school students will return to the city that is already yours.
attend the youth symposium preceding the Annual Meeting. Best wishes for a thoroughly enjoyable and productive
In the rush of the Meeting, do not miss the extraordinary Meeting!
city that surrounds you. From the museums of the Smithsoni-
an Institution to the halls of the Federal government, Wash-
ington offers much. You and your family can learn of anthro- Richard Berendzen is President of The American University and Co-
Chairman of the Washington Advisory Committee for the 1982 Annual Meeting
pology in the Museum of American History, of flight and of the AAAS.
532 SCIENCE, VOL. 214Preconvention Program
Building Knowledge and Understanding:
Enduring Assets of Society
Academy of Sciences; former Director, National Institutes
Public Lectures of Health).
* AAAS Keynote Lecture (3 Jan., 8:30 p.m., WH). 1. General Interest
Speaker to be announced.
Youth Symposium (3 Jan., 2:30 p.m., WH): The astronomical
* AAAS Public Lecture: Four Challenges for the Information perspective.
Age (4 Jan., 1:30 p.m., WH). Richard Berendzen, E. Margaret Burbidge, Russell A. Kirsch,
IAN M. Ross (President, Bell Laboratories).
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Richard A. Goldsby, Gerald Soffen, Stephen C. Grebe, Nancie
L. Gonzalez, Jacob Rabinow, Robert Haar, Henry M. Cathey,
* AAAS Public Lecture: Academia, Industry, and Government: Noel W. Hinners, Eugenie Clark, Howard P. Layer, Geerat
Vermeij, Ronald Graham, Robert F. Murray, Jr., Douglas H.
The Organizational Frontier of Science Today (4 Jan., 8:30 Shaffer, Suzanne Jenniches, Romeo Segnan.
p.m., WH).
The Honorable JAMES B. HUNT (Governor, State of North Space Science and Technology and Its Impact: Present and
Carolina). Future (4 Jan., 2:30 p.m., WH): Development of space activi-
ties.
* AAAS Public Lecture: Theories of Choice in the Making of Joseph V. Charyk, George A. Keyworth, Frank Press, Koji
Decisions (5 Jan., 1:30 p.m., WH). Kobayashi, George M. Low.
JAMES G. MARCH (Fred H. Merrill Professor of Manage-
ment, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University). Frontiers of the Social Sciences (5 Jan., 9:00 a.m., 2:30 p.m.,
WH): Urban evolution, psychological growth, economics,
* AAAS Public Lecture: Diving for the Ancient Past (5 Jan., interdisciplinary research, studies of expertise.
8:30 p.m., WH). Nancie L. Gonzalez, Meredith P. Crawford, Frederick Mosteller,
Robert McC. Adams, Jerome Kagan, Mancur L. Olson, Kenneth
ROBERT L. HOHLFELDER (Professor of History, University Prewitt, Lee S. Shulman, William C. Sturtevant.
of Colorado).
Science: The Beginning of a Great Adventure (5 Jan., 2:30
* Phi Beta Kappa Public Lecture: Inspiring Scientific Literacy p.m., WH): Space exploration, astronomy, cosmology, phys-
Through Public Participation (6 Jan., 1:30 p.m., WH). ics, computer sciences.
J. Tuzo WILSON (Director General, Ontario Science Cen- Jerry Pournelle, Rolf M. Sinclair, Gregory Benford, Marvin
tre). Minsky, Larry Niven, Carl Sagan, Charles Sheffield.
* AAAS President's Public Lecture: The Other Frontiers of A Symposium to Honor Mina Rees: Contributions to the Study
Science (6 Jan., 8:30 p.m., WH). of Artificial Intelligence (6 Jan., 9:00 a.m., WH): Arranged by
D. ALLAN BROMLEY (Henry Ford II Professor and Direc- Herman H. Goldstine.
tor, A. W. Wright Nuclear Laboratory, Yale University).
The Frontiers of the Natural Sciences (7 Jan., 9:00 a.m., 2:30
* George Sarton Memorial Public Lecture: Why Edit Scientific p.m., WH): Planetary exploration, orogenic belts, nonlinear
Classics? (7 Jan., 1:30 p.m., WH). phenomena, chemistry and health, symmetry and sporadic
HENRY E. GUERLAC (Goldwin Smith Professor Emeritus of groups, hormonal control of behavior.
History of Science, Cornell University). Rolf M. Sinclair, Frank Press, Bruce Murray, Robert D. Hatcher,
Jr., J. Robert Schrieffer, Lewis H. Sarett, John H. Conway,
James Truman.
* AAAS Public Lecture: Science and the Cultural Warp (7 Jan.,
8:30 p.m., WH). Human Learning and the Optimum Utilization of Knowledge
DONALD S. FREDRICKSON (Scholar-in-Residence, National (8 Jan., 9:00 a.m., 1:30 p.m., WH): The school system, mass
HOTEL CODES: Washington Hilton . .. (WH); Capital Hilton . - (CH)
Register in advance and receive afree 1982 AAAS Calendar with your Program; registration and houtsig forms can be found
on pages 546 and 547. For information on tours and the Film Festival, see Science, 2 October 1981, pages 45-47.
30 OCTOBER 1981 533Chemistry Is Fun! (8 Jan., 9:00 a.m., WH): Microscopy,
operation supersleuth, chemistry at the FBI, magic.
Support of Scientific Research in the '80s Lois A. Nicholson, Richard S. Nicholson, Robert W. Parry,
George Pimentel, Walter McCrone, Jeanette Grasselli, Barry
A special session, "The Support of Scientific Re- Brown, Luther Brice.
search in the '80s," will open the Washington Meeting
at 1:30 p.m. on Sunday, 3 January, in the Senate Room 3. Earth and Planetary Sciences
of the Capital Hilton Hotel. Emphasis will be on antici-
pated support within the academic community from the The Weather of Other Planets (4 Jan., 9:00 a.m., WH): Origin
federal government and private foundations. of atmospheres, Titan, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn.
D. Allan Bromley, AAAS President, will introduce Andrew P. Ingersoll, Julius London, Tobias Owen, Yuk L. Yung,
speakers from the National Science Foundation, De- Ronald G. Prinn, Gerald Schubert, Conway B. Leovy.
partment of Energy, Department of Defense, National
Institutes of Health, and Rockefeller Foundation. The Paradoxes of Western Energy Development: How Can We
discussion will include points raised from the audience. Maintain the Land and the People if We Develop? (4 Jan., 2:30
p.m.; 5 Jan., 9:00 a.m., 2:30 p.m., WH): Policies for develop-
ment, states' role, environmental regulations, intent of Con-
gress, enforcement, Wyoming, oil shale, western oil and gas,
role of water, clean air and energy, social impacts, Native
media, museums and the arts, social benefits and private Americans, impact assessments, sociocultural factors.
incentives, public decision-making. Cyrus M. McKell, Elinor C. Cruze, Richard L. Perrine, Donald
Lawrence E. Senesh, Kenneth E. Boulding, Joseph D. Novak, G. Browne, Fred Roach, William R. Freudenburg, Bruce Bab-
Fritz Machlup, Paul Bohannan, Albert L. Ayars, Leo Bogart, bitt, John Hemandez, Gary Hart, M. Rupert Cutler, Gary B.
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Victor J. Danilov, F. James Rutherford, Leonid Hurwicz, Arthur Glass, James H. Gary, Richard B. Powers, Peter House, Lee
R. Kantrowitz, William N. Hubbard, Jr. Brown, David Abbey, Charles D. Kolstad, William D. Schulze,
Michael D. Williams, Joe Jorgensen, Steve H. Murdock, F.
Larry Leistritz, Stan L. Albrecht, Allen Kneese.
2. Physical Sciences
Global Concerns of Stratospheric Modification (6 Jan., 9:00
a.m., WH): The ozone layer, ultraviolet light and skin cancer,
Special Issues in Laboratory Safety (4 Jan., 9:00 a.m., WH): chlorofluorocarbons, federal and international response.
Occupational health standards, physically handicapped, de- Julius London, Hans A. Panofsky, Thomas B. Fitzpatrick,
signing laboratories, legal responsibilities. Lester Machta, Max S. Peters, Robert W. Kates.
Anne B. Swanson, Bailus Walker, Jr., Thomas S. Austin, Nor-
man V. Steere, James Ric Gass. Drought in the United States: History, Causes, and Impact (The
Dust Bowl Revisited) (6 Jan., 2:30 p.m., WH): The Great
Chemically Solvable Problems (4 Jan., 2:30 p.m., WH): Con- Plains, tree-ring records, causes and impacts, government
quest of diabetes, health and the environment, drug monitor- response.
ing, clinical chemistry. Kenneth H. Bergman, Alan D. Hecht, Robert S. Chen, Charles
Helen M. Free, Alfred H. Free, Anna J. Harrison, Jocelyn M. W. Stockton, David M. Meko, Jerome Namias, Norman J.
Hicks, Edward C. Knoblock. Rosenberg, Donald A. Wilhite.
Grand Unification in Elementary Particle Physics and Cosmolo- Carbon Dioxide, Climate, Impacts, and Research (7 Jan., 9:00
gy (5 Jan., 9:00 a.m., 2:30 p.m., WH): Fundamental interac- a.m., CH): Energy supply and demand, climate impact, C02-
tions and substructures, nucleon decay, galaxy formation, induced warming, assessing the impacts, scientific research.
cosmic microwave background. David M. Bums, Roger Revelle, Alfred M. Perry, James Hansen,
George A. Snow, Steven Weinberg, Donald H. Perkins, Jogesh Hermann Flohn, Jesse Ausubel.
C. Pati, Vigdor L. Teplitz, Michael S. Turner, Marvin L.
Marshak, J. Richard Gott III. The Planet Earth (7 Jan., 9:00 a.m., WH): Ecosystems, origin
of life, calcium, the atmosphere, evolution.
Solar Flares: A Key to the Physics of Cosmic Magnetic Explo- Lynn Margulis, Tobias C. Owen, Daniel Botkin, Cyril Ponnam-
sions (6 Jan., 9:00 a.m., WH): The Sun's energy, solar peruma, Robert H. Kretsinger, James C. G. Walker.
magnetic fields, magnetic explosions, stellar flares, astrophys-
ical plasmas. Looking into the Earth: Nonconventional Imaging Methods
James A. lonson, Sabatino Sofia, Leon Golub, Robert D. Chap- (7 Jan., 2:30 p.m., WH): Satellite imagery, synthetic aperture
man, Robert Rosner. radar, infrared methods, sidescan sonar, the seismic picture.
Franklyn K. Levin, Floyd F. Sabins, Jr., Homer Jensen, Thomas
Science for the Naked Eye; Or, the Physics of Everyday R. Ory, James M. Coleman, Alistair R. Brown, David B. Prior.
Experience, IX (6 Jan., 9:00 a.m., 2:30 p.m., CH): The
boomerang, computer aninytion on film, sky awareness, International Minerals: A National Perspective (8 Jan., 9:00
animal locomotion, the artist and space, the planets from a.m., WH): Critical minerals, minerals policy, Alaska, Cana-
space. da, South Africa, U.S.S.R. and Afghanistan, historian's per-
Rolf M. Sinclair, David P. Robson, James F. Blinn, Jack Borden, spective.
Jerry Wishnow, Thomas #,Jpfahon, Frederick C. Durant, III, Allen F. Agnew, A. G. Unklesbay, L. Harold Bullis, Harrison
Farouk El-Baz. (Jack) Schmitt, Meredith E. Ostrom, Thomas K. Bundtzen, John
H. DeYoung, Jr., W. C. J. Van Rensburg, John F. Shroder, Jr.,
Quasars Large and Small (6 Jan., 2:30 p.m., WH): What are Alfred E. Eckes, Jr.
they and what do they look like?
Virginia L. Trimble, Thomas A. Matthews, Jean A. Eilek, Martin The Appalachians: New Frontiers in Old Mountains (8 Jan.,
J. Rees, Kenneth I. Kellermann, Maarten Schmidt 1:30 p.m., WH): Paleozoic exotic terranes, thin skin and rifts
534 SCIENCE, VOL. 214and sutures, metaRlic minerals, Eastern Overthrust Belt, neo- public interest, national attitudes, perceived risk, public oppo-
tectonics, Appalachian water. I
sition, nuclear industry, media influence.
Robert B. Neuman, E-an Zen, Martin F. Kane, Jacob E. Gair, William R. Freudenburg, Eugene A. Rosa, W. Kenneth Davis,
Wallace De Witt, Jr., Juergen Reinhardt, M. Gordon Wolman. Barry Commoner, William L. Rankin, Paul Slovic, Baruch
Fischhoff, Sarah Lichtenstein, Robert C. Mitchell, Robert A.
Szalay, Allan C. Mazur, Cynthia B. Flynn, Don A. Dillman,
4. Engineering and Technology Russell C. Youmans, Marvin E. Olsen, Steve H. Murdock,
Barbara Farhar-Pilgrim, Cora Bagley Marrett.
Computer-Based Sciences: Policy and Performance Issues
(4 Jan., 9:00 a.m., 2:30 p.m., WH): Computing resources, International Progress in Energy Conservation, 1972-1982
aerodynamic simulator, computational sciences, federal poli- (5 Jan., 9:00 a.m., WH): Measuring progress, United States,
cies, innovation. Federal Republic of Germany, Italy, Venezuela.
Melvyn Ciment, Lawrence A. Lee, William F. lIallhaus, Jr., Lee Schipper, Eric Hirst, Karl-Friedrich Holm, Sheldon Lam-
John Killeen, E. Rex Krueger, George G. Olson, Peter D. Lax, bert, Oliviero Bernardini, Luis Sedgwick-Baez.
Walter M. MacIntyre, Jay P. Boris, Glenn R. Ingram, Francis A.
McDonough, Sidney Fernbach, George E. Lindamood, Peter G. Fuelb and Chemicals from Olseeds: Technology and Policy
Lykos. Options (5 Jan., 2:30 p.m., WH): Novel oilseeds on marginal
The Software Explosion: Issues in Software Technology, Mea- lands, renewable agricultural resources, sunflower oil, Chi-
nese tallow tree, commercial oilseed crops, wild plant oil-
surement; and Evaluation Through Human Engineering and seeds.
Management Perspectives (5 Jan., 9:00 a.m., WH): Engineer- Robert P. Morgan, Eugene B. Shultz, Jr., George E. Brown, Jr.,
ing technology, management perspectives, human factors, Kenton R. Kaufman, Herbert W. Scheld, Everett H. Pryde,
reliability models, education. Robert Kleiman.
K. 0. Bowman, Roshan L. Chaddha, Jean C. Zolnowski, Leon
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G. Stucki, Edwin A. Irland, Ben Shneiderman, Amrit L. Goel, Fuels from Biomass: Patterns of Development in Latin America
William M. McKeeman.
and the Caribbean (6 Jan., 9:00 a.m., 2:30 p.m., WH): Central
Innovations in Manufacturing (5 Jan., 2:30 p.m., WH): Tech- America, the Caribbean, Brazilian alcohol, biofuels in arid
nological frontier, human considerations, computer-based regions, international concerns, environmental perspective,
technology. Swedish perspective, development strategies.
Joel D. Goldhar, Janice E. Greene, M. Eugene Merchant, Juan Valera-Lema, Ingemar Falkehag, James W. Rowe, Michael
Barbara A. Bums, James Hardy, James E. Ashton, Erich Block, Dow, Carlos Rolz, Norberto Quezada, Lourival Carmo-Monaco,
Margaret B. W. Graham, Sidney A. Rubenstein, Howard Young. Enrique Campos-Lopez, Carl R. Duisberg, Gustavo Calderon,
Joseph F. Coates, Henry Hitchcock, Lisa Heinz, Erik Wiren,
Astrid Borg, Gustaf Siren, Carl Joran Heden, Luis Correa da
The Potential of Space: Developing Science and Applications Silva.
Policies (6 Jan., 9:00 a.m., 2:30 p.m., WH): National policy,
NASA, space exploration, international ventures, view from Fusion Energy: Science and Policy (7 Jan., 9:00 a.m., WJI):
Congress, government and commercial policy, military and Magnetic fusion, inertial confinement fusion, Department of
civilian policy, competing in space. Energy, implications for the next century.
Randolph J. Steer, Richard C. Hart, Leonard W. David, Eugene John F. Clarke, Harold P. Furth, Gerald P. Yonas, Edwin E.
H. Levy, John Naugle, Stan Kent,. Wilfred Mellors, George E. Kintner, Mike McCormack.
Brown, Jr., Ray A. Williamson, Thomas H. Karas, Donald A.
Vogt, Hans Mark, John Logsdon, Gordon Law, Stephen Ches-
ton. Synthetic Fuels from Nonfossil Sources (7 Jan., 2:30 p.m.,
WH): Fission, fusion, solar, the transition.
Space Industrialization: Who's Doing What Today (7 Jan., 9:00 Frank J. Salzano, James R. Powell, Cesare Marchetti, Robert
a.m., WH): Corporate perspective, industrial perspective, Quade, Edwin E. Kintner, J. O'M. Bockris, Meyer Steinberg.
Japanese perspective, space technology, NASA perspective,
European perspective. Behavioral Approaches to Energy Conservation (8 Jan., 9:00
Morrie Schneiderman, Norris Mendoza, Larry L. Fosbinder, a.m., WH): Household adaptations, tenants and landlords,
Thomas Piwonka, Akira Sawaoka, Robert F. Shaw, Louis Tes- systems perspective, social-psychological process, energy-
tardi, Hannes Walter. saving innovations, consumer participation.
Paul C. Stern, Elliot Aronson, J. Stanley Black, Julie T. Elworth,
Ceramics for the 21st Century (7 Jan., 2:30 p.m., WH): Lou McClefland, Richard A. Winett, John M. Darley, Sara B.
Modern technology, electronic and optical applications, high Kiesler.
temperature, new materials.
Roy W. Rice, Murray A. Schwartz, John B. Wachtman, Jr., Energy R&D Strategies and National Energy Policy (8 Jan.,
Geoffrey Frohnsdorff, Robert C. Pohanka, R. Nathan Katz. 1:30 p.m., WH): Private sector role, Department of Energy,
congressional perspective, long-term view.
Chemistry of Optical Communications (8 Jan. 9:00 a.m., WH): Albert H. Teich, Thomas J. Wilbanks, Ezra D. Heitowit, Robert
Light-wave systems, optical fibers, glasses, semiconductor L. Hirsch, W. Kenneth Davis, Robert W. Fri, Ellis Cose, Lionel
lasers. S. Johns, Hats Landsberg.
Joseph A. Giordmaine, Melvin I. Cohen, Koichi Inada, John E.
Midwinter, Morton I. Schwartz, Henry Kressel. Traditional Fuels and Forest Policy in Asia and Africa (8 Jan.,
1:30 p.m., CH): India, Nepal, West Africa, Gujerat, Uttar
5. Energy Pradesh, Tanzania.
Irene Tinker, Norman L. Brown, Richard Tucker, Deanna G.
Nuclear Power and the Public: Are There Critical Masses? Donovan, Marilyn W. Hoskins, Raymond J. Noronha, Margaret
M. Skutsch, Julia C. Allen, Douglas Barnes, Kathleen McNa-
(4 Jan., 9:00 a.m., 2:30 p.m., WH): Reagan Administration, mara.
30 OCTOBER 1981 5356. Biological Sciences Molecular and Cellular Biology of the Lens (5 Jan., 9:00 a.m.,
WH): Cellular communication, cytoarchitecture, beta and
gamma crystallins, lens transparency, crystallin synthesis.
Biological Generation and Detection of Magnetic Fields (4 Jan., Joram Piatigorsky, Daniel A. Goodenough, Harry Maisel, Thom-
9:00 a.m., WH): Aquatic bacteria, pigeons, ferromagnetic as L. Blundell, George B. Benedek.
minerals in animal tissue, recent advances.
Saul Krasner, Richard B. Frankel, Charles Walcott, Joseph L. The Protein Folding Problem (5 Jan., 2:30 p.m., WH): Modular
Kirschvink, David E. Farrell. assembly processes, bacteriorhodopsin, genetic analysis, hi-
erarchical structure, collagen fibril.
Biological Processes at Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vents (4 Jan., Jonathan King, Jane S. Richardson, Donald B. Wetlaufer, Don-
2:30 p.m., WH): Physical setting, chemosynthetic production, ald M. Engelman, Donna Smith, Karl A. Piez.
growth rates of invertebrates, feeding types.
Holger W. Jannasch, Robert D. Ballard, Richard A. Lutz, Ruth Commercial Genetic Engineering: Impacts on Universities and
D. Turner. Nonprofit Institutions (6 Jan., 9:00 a.m., WH): Patents, public
image of science, faculty members and institutions, triangular
International Cooperation in Ecological Research: Strengths, relationships, erosion of research, funding and academic
Weaknesses, and Future Needs (5 Jan., 9:00 a.m., WH): freedom.
Agroecosystem research, mathematical modeling, biogeo- Sheldon Krimsky, Charles Weiner, Gilbert S. Omenn, Ruth L.
chemical cycles, everybody's fuiture. Kirschstein, Jonathan King, Otto T. Solbrig.
Mohan K. Wali, Harold L. Mooney, Frank B. Golley, John H.
Vandermeer, Robert A. Goldstein, Folke Andersson, Carl W. Reflections on the Recombinant DNA Controversy (7 Jan., 9:00
Chen, Robert G. Woodmansee, Thomas E. Lovejoy, III. a.m., 2:30 p.m., WH): Federal perspective, technology and
democratic control, professional societies.
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Mutualism: New Ecological Theories (5 Jan., 2:30 p.m., WH): Clifford Grobstein, Raymond A. Zilinskas, Donald S. Fredrick-
Theoretical models, tropical food web, effect of third species, son, Keith Gibson, Ray Thornton, Charles Weiner, Claire Nader,
populations, group selection. Gregg Edwards, Harold Schmeck, Jr., Harlyn 0. Halvorson,
Douglas H. Boucher, Robert M. May, Larry E. Gilbert, David C. Burke K. Zimmerman.
Culver, W. M. Post, D. L. Deangelis, C. C. Travis, David Sloan
Wilson. Transition: Applications of Genetic Engineering to Agriculture
(8 jan., 9:00 a.m., WH): T' and R3 plasmids, nitrogen fixation,
Biocommunication: New Discoveries and Ideas (6 Jan., 9:00 crop seed proteins, genetic engineering and plant breeding,
a.m., 2:30 p.m., WH): Ritualized combat, ants, firefly, sexual animal vaccines, baculovirus genomes.
selection, mosquitoes, predator-prey interactions, lumines- H. 0. Kunkel, Joe L. Key, Mary-Dell Chilton, Winston J. Brill,
cent marine orgatisms, crickets, navigation. Timothy C. Hall, E. T. Bingham, Jerry J. Callis, Max D. Sum-
Thomas Eisner, Bert Holidobler, James E. Lloyd, Fred Nijhout, mers.
W. Mitchell Masters, James G. Morin, Franz Huber, Rudiger
Wehner. Plant Biology and Biotechnology in the '80s (8 Jan., 1:30 p.m.,
WH): DNA technology in crop plants, plant tissue culture,
Biology of the Connective Tissue (7 Jan., 9:00 a.m., 2:30 p.m., economically valuable biochemicals, agriculture innovations,
WH): Visualization of collagen, collagen synthesis, interac- support for research and development.
tion of cells, monoclonal antibodies, osteonectin, heritable Jerome P. Miksche, A. Carl Leopold, Charles S. Levings,
disorders, molecular defects, macromolecular disorganiza- Donald J. Durzan, E. John Staba, John F. Fulkerson, Quentin
W. Lindsey.
tion, tumor cells.
George R. Martin, Klaus Kuhn, Ronald G. Crystal, Hynda K.
Kleinman, Leo T. Furcht, John D. Termine, Victor McKusick, 8. Evolution
Darwin J. Prockop, Stephen I. Rennard, Lance A. Liotta.
Bloactive Marine Products (8 Jan., 9:00 a.m., WH): Drugs Mechanisms of Major Evolutionary Change (4 Jan., 9:00 a.m.,
from the sea, marine metabolites, neurobiology. 2:30 p.m., WH): Evolution and development, mutations and
Paul J. Scheuer, Robert S. Jacobs, Yuzuru Shimizu, Patrick L. morphological diversity, genetic variation, macromutation
McGeer. and macroevolution, karyotypic fissioning, polyploidy, sym-
biosis, biochemical evolution of plants.
The Adrenal Chromaffin Vesicle as a Biological Model (8 Jan., Jeffrey S. Levinton, Lynn Margulis, John Maynard Smith, J. T.
1:30 p.m., WH): Exocytosis, membrane fusion, bioenergetic Bonner, Eric Wieschaus, Melvin M. Green, Francisco J. Ayala,
Neil B. Todd, Donald A. Levin, Geerat J. Vermeij, Karl J.
uptake, enkephalins and monoamines, basic release mecha- Niklas.
nisms.
Stephen W. Carmichael, Carl E. Creutz, Stephen J. Morris, Terminal Cretaceous Extinction: A Comparative Assessment of
David L. Njus, 0. Humberto Viveros, Bruce G. Livett.
Causes (5 Jan., 9:00 a.m., 2:30 p.m., WH): New data, flood
basalt volcanism, sudden death, changes in the oceans, tektite
7. Cell Biology and Genetics strewn fields, Arctic spillover mode, ocean plankton extinc-
tions, deep ocean circulation, environmental deterioration,
Human Embryo and Gene Manipulation: The State of the Art, abrupt faunal turnover, vegetational change, evolution of
Ethics, and Public Policy (4 Jan., 9:00 a.m., WH): Human in terrestrial faunas, extinction of the dinosaurs.
vitro fertilization, embryo transfer and cloning, gene therapy Roger D. K. Thomas, Erle G. Kauffman, David M. Raup, Walter
Alvarez, Dewey M. McLean, Cesare Emiliani, Kenneth J. Hsu,
in human adults and embryos, ethical issues, politics. John A. O'Keefe, Stefan Gartner, Hans R. Thierstein, Michael
R. Daniel Benz, Joseph F. Rautenberg, John D. Biggers, W. A. Arthur, Finn Surlyk, Leo J. Hickey, William A. Clemens,
French Anderson, LeRoy Walters, Ruth Hubbard. Thomas J. M. Schopf.
536 SCIENCE, VOL. 214The Origins of Sex and Sex Research (6 Jan., 9:00 a.m., WH): Toxic Substance Control and the Environment: Policy Implica-
Eukaryotic heterotrophic micro-organisms, is sex necessary?, tions for Society (6 Jan., 9:00 a.m., CH): Risk/benefit, strato-
sexual development, why do males exist? spheric ozone, superfund strategy, regulatory decisions.
Georgiana D. Feldberg, Diana Long Hall, Lynn Margulis, Steven S. Phyllis Stearner, Thomas R. Stewart, Herbert L. Wiser,
M. Stanley, Jane A. Maienschein, Fred Hapgood. Michael B. Cook, A. Karim Ahmed, Joseph Highland.
Sexual Differentiation: Brain and Behavior (6 Jan., 2:30 p.m., Applied Toxikology: Environmental Toxicology in the Poison
WH): Neuroeffectors, reproductive behavior, neural sexual Control Center (6 Jan., 2:30 p.m., CH): Regionalization,
differentiation, gonadal steroid receptors, gender identity and reproductive hazards, common noxious substances, the work-
role behavior. place.
Bruce S. McEwen, Darcy B. Kelley, C. D. Toran-Allerand, Eugene V. D. K. Perrin, Regine Aronow, Anthony R. Temple,
Anke A. Ehrhardt. Alan K. Done, Daniel T. Teitelbaum.
The Functions and Management of Aggression and Cooperation Transboundary Transport of Air Pollutants (7 Jan., 9:00 a.m.,
in Biocultural Evolution (7 Jan., 9:00 a.m., WH): The will-to- CH): Regional pollution patterns, satellite imagery, model
power, violence, human emotions, perspectives. simulations, sulfur and nitrogen transport, northeastern Unit-
Garrett Hardin, John W. Bowker, Solomon H. Katz, Paul D. ed States.
MacLean, Paul Heelas, Ward H. Goodenough, Kenneth E. William W. Wilson, Walter A. Lyons, John F. Clarke, Rudolf B.
Boulding. Husar, George M. Hidy, Lowell Smith, Jim Young.
What Happened to Darwinism Between the Two Darwin Cen- Environmetrics 82 (7 Jan., 9:00 a.m,, 2:30 p.m., CH): Air and
tennials, 1959-1982? (7 Jan., 2:30 p.m., WH); Evolutionary water pollution, ambient and indoor aerosols, population CO
synthesis, speciation and macroevolution, new molecular exposure, models for human exposure, biological viewpoint,
studies, synthetic theory. statistical considerations, radiation epidemiology, environ-
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William B. Provine, Stephen Jay Gould, Ernst Mayr, Walter M. mental epidemiology, quantitative risk assessment, occupa-
Fitch, G. Ledyard Stebbins. tional radiation exposure, carcinogenesis.
The Evolution of Hpman Diet: New Lines of Evidence (8 Jan., Donald L. Thomsen, Jr., J. Stuart Hunter, John D. Spengler,
Paul Switzer, Naihua Duan, Tim S. Stuart, Gerald Van Belle,
9:00 a.m., WH); Miocene hominids, tooth wear, bone stron- David G. Hoel, Victor Hasselblad, James H. Ware, Sidney
tium levels, carbon and nitrogen isotope ratios of fossil bone, Marks, Norman E. Breslow, Charles E. Land, Wayne R. Ott.
archaeological evidence.
Glynn L. Isaac, Alan C. Walker, Richard F. Kay, Kathleen D. Groundwater Pollution: An Emerging Threat to a Natural
Gordon, Margaret Schoeninger, Andrew Sillen, Michael J. De- Resource (7 Jan., 2:30 p.m., CH): Groundwater hydrology,
Niro, Henry T. Bunn, Richard B. Potts. organic chemical contaminants, legal and institutional prob-
lems.
The Human Knowledge Process: An Evolutionary Dilemma Curtis C. Travis, Elizabeth L. Etnier, Gordon D. Bennett, David
(8 Jan., 1:30 p.m., WH): Knowledge evolution, autopoietic E. Burmaster, Robert H. Harris, David W. Miller, James T. B:
system, emotional cognitive structural modes, building sub- Tripp.
jectivity into the computer, human survival.
William Gray, Aristide H. Esser, John B. Calhoun, Brian R. External Threats to Ecosystems of the National Parks (8 Jan.,
Gaines, Mildred L. G. Shaw, Magoroh Maruyama. 9:00 a.m., CH): Hydrologic regulation, barrier island parks,
exotic plant and animal species, grizzly bear, anthropogenic
9. Environment atmospheric inputs.
J. Robert Stottlemyer, R. Roy Johnson, Paul Jeffrey Godfrey,
Susan P. Bratton, Clifford J. Martinka.
The Global 2000 Report to the President: The Authors Update
Their Work (4 Jan., 9:00 a.m., CH): Projections reappraised, Environmental Assaults on the Nervous System and Human
food, energy, tropical forest resources. Behavior: A New Health Challenge (8 Jan., 1:30 p.m., CH):
Gerald 0. Barney, Samuel Baum, Patrick M. O'Brien, John D. Behavioral deficits, neurobehavioral testing, teratology, neu-
Pearson, Bruce B. A. Ross-Sheriff, Ned W. Dearborn. rochemistry, regulatory goals.
Bambi Batts Young, Bernard Weiss, W. Kent Anger, Charles V.
Human Impacts on Global Resources: Disciplinary Approaches Vorhees, Ellen K. Silbergeld, Lawrence W. Reiter.
and Research (4 Jan., 2:30 p.m., CH): The global concerns,
ecological view, geographical approaches, anthropological 10. Food and Agriculture
approaches, socioenvironmental impact assessment.
Kenneth A. Dahlberg, John W. Bennett, Ralph C. d'Arge, Frank
B. Golley, Douglas Johnson, Leonard Berry, Emilio F. Moran, Estmating the Value of Endangered Species of Plants: Respon-
Charles P. Wolf, Robert E. Tillman. sibilities of the Scientific Community (4 Jan., 9:00 a.m., CH):
Extinction, impairment of ecosystem function, economic
Life on Earth Is Getting Better-Or Is It? (5 Jan., 9:00 a.m., analysis, preserving endangered 'plants, scientific value of
CH): Global futures controversy. plants, medical value of plants, priorities for conserving.
S. Fred Singer, Glenn R. Hilst, Julian L. Simon, Garrett Hardin, Rolf Martin, Paul R. Ehrlich, Ghillean T. Prance, Anthony C.
Harold J. Barnett, Alvin Weinberg, Aaron Wildavsky. Fisher, Oliver Ray Stanton, Edward S. Ayensu, Norman R.
Farnsworth, Bruce MacBryde.
The Global 2000 Report on Population, Resources, and Envi-
ronment: Implications for American Education (5 Jan., 2:30 Technical and Policy Aspects of Water Use in Agricuture
p.m., CH): Leadership, learning and teaching, new curricula, (4 Jan., 2:30 p.m., CH): Dryland agricultural production,
interdisciplinary undergraduate education. drought strategies, water conservation, irrigated agriculture.
Martha G. Jenner, Charles E. Jenner, Russell W. Peterson, S. William L. Powers, Floyd W. Smith, D)onald A. Wilhite, Marvin
Wesley Jackson, Elaine M. Murphy. E. Jensen, Henry P. Caulfield.
30 OCTOBER 1981 537Agricultural Land Use: Emerging Pressures (5 Jan., 9:00 a.m., commission, new regulations, federal regulation, biomedical
CH): Loss of prime farmland, shifts in production, effects of research.
higher grain prices, effects of energy shortages, impact of LeRoy Walters, Charles R. McCarthy, Patricia A. King, Alexan-
restrictions, competition and conflicts over water use. der M. Capron, Ruth R. Faden, Robert J. Levine.
Grant F. Walton, Sylvan H. Wittwer, Fred H. Sanderson,
Herman Bouwer, Charles L. Siemon. Frontiers in the Management of Cardiovascular Disease (6 Jan.,
2:30 p.m., WH): Cardiopulmonary resuscitation, coronary
The Urban-Rural Connection: New Links Between Food Pro- angiography, bypass surgery, prostaglandins, can strokes be
ducers and Consumers (5 Jan., 2:30 p.m., CH): Farming on the prevented?
urban fringe, rural skills as a cultural heritage, urban waste George D. Zuidema, Myron L. Weisfeldt, Allan M. Ross, Edgar
management, regional food economy. D. Charles, Edwin W. Salzman, Jesse E. Thompson.
William Lockeretz, Milton C. Hallberg, J. Patrick Madden,
Roger J. Blobaum, Samuel Kaymen, Jerome Goldstein, Susan E.
Redlich. Communication with Patients Leading to Health Enhancement
(7 Jan., 9:00 a.m., WH): Epistemology, decision-making,
Political Ecology of Food (6 Jan., 9:00 a.m., 2:30 p.m., CH): dimensions of meaning, patient history.
Global food trends, Mexico, Peru, Poland, welfare of the Mark N. Ozer, Arthur F. Kohrman, Magoroh Maruyama, Arthur
S. Elstein, Eric Cassell.
poor, food policies, govemment intervention, agricultural
exports and the environment, political process.
Frank C. Miller, John W. Bennett, John W. Mellor, Gordon Torture, Medical Practice, and Medical Ethics (8 Jan., 9:00
Appleby, Charlotte Chase, Nyle Brady, William W. Murdoch, a.m., WH): Codes of medical ethics, examination of torture
Chris Hodges, Pierre Crosson, Barbara Lewis, Orville G. Bent- victims, psychiatric sequelae, psychosocial rehabilitation,
ley, Terry Roe. medical and psychological sequelae, Latin American survi-
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vors.
Plant Responses to Environnmental Stress (8 Jan., 9:00 a.m., Michael H. Nelson, Viki Zunzunegui, Frederico Allodi, Case
CH): Cold acclimation and freezing injury, responses to Korff, Jose Quiroga.
drought, tomato, temperate woody plants, grasses.
John F. Kelly, Peter L. Steponkus, Cecil R. Stewart, Robert C.
Herner, Les H. Fuchigami, C. Robert Olien. 12. Biomedical Technology
Risk Estimates for Medical Diagnostic Radiation Procedures
11. Medical Sciences (4 Jan., 9:00 a.m., WH): Sequential design, A-bomb survivor
studies, dosimetry and risk estimates, epidemiological stud-
Medical Frontiers: Substitute Organs (4 Jan., 9:00 a.m., WH): ies.
Artificial pancreas, kidney, heart, and joints. M. Guven Yalcintas, Rana Yalcintas, Harald H. Rossi, Teddy I.
Leah M. Lowenstein, Pierre M. Galletti, Robert L. Berger. Seidenfeld, Charles E. Land, Lawrence H. Lanzl, Elaine A.
Zeighami.
Can We Prevent Organ Grafts from Failing? Studies on Large
Populations as Guides to Policy and Practice (4 Jan., 2:30 p.m., The End of Isolation: Speech Prostheses (4 Jan., 2:30 p.m.,
WH): Renal transplantation, clinical investigations, blood WH): Augmentative communication, use of technologies in
transfusions, statistical modeling, matching of donors and rehabilitation, human factors, training and utilization.
recipients. Macalyne Fristoe, Gregg C. Vanderheiden, Howard C. Shane,
Henry Krakauer, G. Melville Williams, Benjamin A. Barnes, Judy K. Montgomery.
Samuel W. Greenhouse, Paul I. Terasaki, R. Clifton Bailey,
Everett K. Spees, Reed Hawthorne, William K. Vaughn. The Applications of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) in
Biology and Medicine (5 Jan., 9:00 a.m., 2:30 p.m., WH): 31P
Advances in Control of Dental Caries (5 Jan., 9:00 a.m., WH): NMR, 13C NMR, human brain and limbs, cancer therapy,
Prevalence, etiology, prevention, new methods, acceptance of NMR imaging, blood flow and oxygenation, cellular metabo-
preventive procedures. lism, intracellular kinetics.
William H. Bowen, Janet A. Brunelle, Robert J. Fitzgerald, Leon Robert S. Balaban, George K. Radda, Robert Shulman, Britton
M. Silverstone, Michael F. Cole, Alice M. Horowitz. Chance, Jerry D. Glickson, David I. Hoult, Keith R. Thulborn,
Sheila M. Cohen, Truman R. Brown.
Research Advances in Sickle Cell Disease (5 Jan., 2:30 p.m.,
WH): Molecular aspects, pathophysiology, drug develop- Some Mathematical Questions in Biology (7 Jan., 9:00 a.m.,
ment, prenatal diagnosis, the clinical coutse. 2:30 p.m., VW): Neuron form, neuronal plasticity, bursting
Gertrude C. Ridgel, Clarice D. Reid, Alan N. Schechter, Jeanne pacemaker model, squid axon, calcium diffusion and buffer-
A. Smith, Ronald L. Nagel, Yuet W. Kan, Marilyn H. Gaston.
ing, ion diffusion, brain cell.
Robert M. Miura, Wilfrid Rall, Charles Stevens, John Rinzel,
Role of Gamete Surface Components in Fertilization, Contra- Richard E. Plant, Alwyn C. Scott, John A. Connor, C. Nichol-
ceptionb and Fertilit (6 Jan., 9:00 a.m., WH): Invertebrate son, J. M. Phillips.
fertilization, mammalian fertilization, sperm morphology and
function, egg surface, antigenicity. High Technology in the Frontiers of Medicine: Too Expensive or
Eli D. Schmell, William J. Lennarz, Barry R. Zirkin, Paul M. Lifesaving? (8 Jan., 1:30 p.m., WH): Examples, clinical labo-
Wassarman, Anil B. Mukheujee. ratory tests, data information sources, incentives to adopt too
much or too little evaluation.
Human Research and Its Regulation: An Evaluation of the New Robert S. Ledley, Michael Buas, Robert C. Rock, Clifton R.
Federal Rules (6 Jan., 2:30 p.m., WH): HHS rules, national Gaus, Judith L. Wagner, Barbara J. McNeil.
538 SCIENCE, VOL. 21413. Behavioral Sciences 14. Anthropology and Development
The Brain Sciences and Education (4 Jan., 9:00 a.m., CH): Child Development and International Development: Research-
Developmental plasticity in the brain, neurosciences. Policy Interfaces (4 Jan., 9:00 a.m., CH): Child mortality,
Rita W. Peterson, Joseph I. Lipson, Colin Blakemore, Jeanne S. fertility and child development, maternal employment, litera-
Chall, Michael S. Gazzaniga, Lauren B. Resnick. cy in the Third World, urban migration.
Daniel A. Wagner, Robert A. LeVine, Susan H. Cochrane,
Patricia L. Engle, Mary Racelis Hollnsteiner, Peter Tagon,
Enduring and Reversible Effects of Early Experience (4 Jan., Francis X. Sutton.
2:30 p.m., CH): Behavioral inhibition, ontogenetic adapta-
tions, nutritional factors, rhesus monkeys, infant develop-
ment. Appropriate Technology: The New Elegance in an Age of
Lewis P. Lipsitt, Gilbert Gottlieb, Jerome Kagan, Robert E. Constraints (4 Jan., 2:30 p.m., CH): National Science Founda-
Klein, Robert E. Lasky, John Townsend, Stephen J. Suomi, tion, Department of Energy, National Center for Appropriate
Richard M. Lerner, Robert N. Emde. Technology, assessment, congressional interest, state pro-
gram.
Philip L. Bereano, Robert Lamson, Edward H. Bryan, Harold
Beyond Cerebral Laterality: New Methods Reveal the Interac- Devoe, Edwin C. Kepler, John Andelin, George E. Brown, Jr.,
tion of Many Areas of the Brain During Mental Activities Robert Judd.
(5 Jan., 9:00 a.m., CH): Primate neocortex, olfactory percep-
tion in rabbits, metabolic mapping, human brain, electrical
patterns of human cognition, organization of language in the The Ecosystem Concept in Anthropology (5 Jan., 9:00 a.m.,
dominant hemisphere, human brain plasticity, alteration of 2:30 p.m., CH): The concept in biology, archaeological re-
search, S. Turkana project, human ecological research, cen-
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neural function. tral Moluccas, New England 1620-1850, limitations of the
Alan S. Gevins, Edward Jones, Walter J. Freeman, John Maz-
ziotta, David Caplan, Paul Bach-Y-Rita. concept.
Emilio F. Moran, Eugene Odum, Michael Jochim, Michael A.
Little, James E. Ellis, Neville Dyson-Hudson, Rada Dyson-
Aspects of Mathematical Performance by Males and Females Hudson, David M. Swift, Daniel Bates, Susan Lees, Frank
(5 Jan., 2:30 p.m., CH): Educational variables, biological Golley, Roy Rappaport, Roy F. Ellen, John Adams, Alice
Kasakoff.
correlates, construction and use of tests, mathematically
gifted, research context for studies.
Sheila M. Pfafflin, Ann C. Howe, Elizabeth Fennema, Anne C. Environment and Development in East Africa (7 Jan., 9:00
Petersen, Thomas F. Donlon, Lynn H. Fox, Florence L. Den- a.m., CH): Institutions and resource management, Somalia,-
mark. Tanzania, industrialization and rural livelihood.
Barbara P. Thomas, Charles W. Hays, Leonard Berry, Robert A.
Simko, Ophelia C. Mascarenhas.
Alcohol Use in Different Populations: Treatment and Prevention
at the Crossroads (6 Jan., 9:00 a.m., CH): Acetaldehyde
metabolism, American Indian physiologic reactions, cultural The Impact of Development on Peoples Who Occupy Land at
and psychological and demographic variables, the Black com- Relatively Low Population Densities (7 Jan., 2:30 p.m., CH):
munity, Hispanic alcohol abuse, worldwide studies. Foraging peoples, Inuit hunter-gatherers, New World tropics,
James M. Schaefer, Robert S. Pozos, Arthur R. Zeiner, Joan Canadian subarctic, northwest Kalahari foragers.
Crofut Weibel, Lewis M. King, Anthony M. Alcocer, Raoul John E. Yellen, Richard B. Lee, Eric Alden Smith, John H.
Naroll. Bodley, Bruce P. Winterhalder, Alison S. Brooks.
Influence of Hypnosis and Related States on Memory: Forensic Conflict, Resolution, and Revolution (8 Jan., 9:00 a.m., CH):
Implications (6 Jan., 2:30 p.m., CH): Demand characteristics, New Guinea warfare, Spanish gypsies, Indian-White disputes,
criminal cases, malleability of eyewitness memory, altering Guatemala, Japanese village, Sandinistas.
states of consciousness, contamination of evidence. June Nash, Frances Rothstein, Paula Brown Glick, Miriam
Martin T. Orne, Ulric Neisser, Milton V. Kline, Elizabeth F. Kaprow, Gail H. Landsman, Thomas J. Maloney, Eugene E.
Loftus, Lawrence C. Kolb, Bernard L. Diamond. Ruyle, Ted MacDonald, M. Barbara Leons.
Therapeutic Epistemologies: Latin American Spiritual and Bio-
Management of Pain and Symptom Control in Terminally Ill medical Healing (8 Jan., 1:30 p.m., CH): Puerto Rico, Mexi-
Patients (7 Jan., 2:30 p.m., CH): Ethical and humanitarian can-Americans in Texas, Peruvian Amazon, Mexico, Colom-
concerns, pathophysiology and pharmacology, drug therapy bia, holistic curing.
for symptom control. Marlene Dobkin de Rios, Joan Koss, Robert T. Trotter, Kaja
Arthur G. Lipman, Robert S. Beardsley, Edmund D. Pellegrino, Finkler, Michael Whiteford, Mansell Pattison.
Bradford D. Hare.
Measurement of Pain in Animals and Man (8 Jan., 9:00 a.m., 15. Sociology and Political Science
WH): Psychophysical assessment, clinical and experimental
pain responses, psychophysics of analgesia in animals, periph- Aging from Birth to Death: Biosocial Perspectives (4 Jan., 9:00
eral neural mechanisms, behavioral and physiological mea- a.m., CH): Genetic perspectives, cardiovascular disease, psy-
sures. chological control, physiologic aging, economic fluctuations.
Richard H. Gracely, Laurence A. Bradley, Dennis D. Kelly, Matilda White Riley, David Glass, Gerald E. McClearn, J. Allan
Ronald Dubner, M. Catherine Bushnell. Herd, Judith Rodin, James F. Fries, Richard Suzman.
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The spectacular John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, overlooking Washington's Potomac River, includes a Concert Hall, Opera
House, Eisenhower Theater for drama, Terrace Theater, and the American Film Institute Theater. The white marble structure is 600 feet long and
rises 135 feet above the Potomac. [Photo courtesy of the Washington Area Convention and Visitors Bureau]
Quality of Federal Statistics: Research, Programmatic, and Organizational Evolution: External Selection versus Internal
Policy Implications (4 Jan., 2:30 p.m., CH): Census and survey Adaptation (6 Jan., 2:30 p.m., CH): Organizational ecology,
data, administrative records, limitations of data for public organizational versus biotic evolution, how organizations
policy, state and local issues, social science research. adapt, discretion theory versus efficiency analysis, rationality
Charles B. Nam, Barbara A. Bailar, Roger A. Herriot, Maria and routinization.
Elena Gonzalez, Beth Kilss, Fritz Scheuren, Dorothy M. Gilford, Marshall W. Meyer, John H. Freeman, Michael T. Hannan,
Norfleet W. Rives, Jr., Hal H. Winsborough. Harrison C. White, Oliver E. Williamson, Sidney G. Winter.
Organizational Demography and Labor (5 Jan., 9:00 a.m., The Policy Implications of Changing Household and Family
CH): An aging work force, careers within corporations, career Patterns (7 Jan., 9:00 a.m., CH): Child care in the United
attainment during growth and contraction, managerial staffing States, patterns in divorce, teenage family formation, emerg-
decisions. ing research techniques.
Shelby Stewman, Bruce H. Mayhew, Jeffrey Pfeffer, Seymour Harold C. Wallach, Andrew Cherlin, Martin O'Connell, Oliver
Spilerman, James E. Rosenbaum. Moles, Kristin Moore, Nicholas Zill, Robert Parke.
Comparison of Voting Systems (5 Jan., 2:30 p.m., CH): Polls Critical Issues in Crime Control Policy (7 Jan., 2:30 p.m., CH):
and information in elections, election procedures, multicandi- Incapacitation strategy, white-collar and professional crime,
date electoral systems, plurality voting, axiomatic approach. biological factors, victimization policy, delinquency.
Steven J. Brams, Peter C. Fishburn, Samuel Merrill III, William Edith E. Flynn, Alfred Blumstein, Herbert Edelhertz, Sarnoff A.
H. Riker, Philip D. Straffin, Jr. Mednick, Albert J. Reiss, Jr., Marvin E. Wolfgang.
Ethological Approaches to the Study of Politics (6 Jan., 9:00 Social Power and Dominance in Women: Cultural and Develop-
a.m., CH): Types of political behavior, social status changes, mental Perspectives (8 Jan., 9:00 a.m., 1:30 p.m., CH): Psy-
media images of politicians, ethological politics, a crowded chological well-being, the workplace, dominance as a male
planet. concept, gender and race and power, women's self-percep-
Roger D. Masters, Albert Somit, Carol Barner-Barry, Michael T. tions, age roles as an indicator of power, developing industry,
McGuire, Glendon Schubert, Lionel Tiger, John Wahlke. matriarchs and martyrs, affect and achievement in women.
540 SCIENCE, VOL. 214Liesa Stamm Auerbach, Carol D. Ryff, Grace K. Baruch, Rosa- Turkan K. Gardenier, John S. Gardenier, William D. Rowe,
lind C. Barnett, Dorothy Remy, Carol Gilligan, Evelyn Nakano Joseph V. Rodricks, Eula Bingham, Howard T. Markey, Max
Glenn, Janet Giele, Naomi Katz, Gunhild Hagestad, Patricia Singer, Marvin Schneiderman.
Grandjeans, Julianne Malveaux, Lillian E. Troll, Karen Sacks.
Common Foundations of Economics and Ecology (7 Jan., 2:30
p.m., WH): Scarcity, self-interest, selection, spontaneous
16. Economics, Industry, and Regulations order, macroeconomics of ecological systems, interest rate, a
general system.
If Japan Can, Why Don't We? New Managerial and Method- David J. Rapport, Kenneth E. Boulding, Jack Hirshleifer, Bruce
ological Issues in Quality and Productivity (4 Jan., 9:00 a.m., Hannon, Alan Covich, Magoroh Maruyama, Leslie A. Real.
2:30 p.m., WH): Quality engineering, productivity and quality Verification and the Assessment of Forecast Uncertainty
control, economic growth, education, quality in the United (8 Jan., 9:00 a.m., WH): Econometric model, time series
States, developing countries, Japanese manufacturing. analysis, evaluating models, economic prediction.
Roshan L. Chaddha, K. 0. Bowman, Douglas M. Muster, G. John H. Herbert, David Freedman, Edwin Kuh, Arnold Zellner,
Taguchi, Armand V. Feigenbaum, Edward F. Denison, Reginald James B. Ramsey, Victor Zarnowitz.
W. Revans, Everett M. Rogers, Ed Fuchs, J. M. Juran, K. K.
Anand, Robert H. Hays.
Environmental Consequences of the Clean Air Act Reauthoriza- 17. History and the Philosophy of Science
tion (5 Jan., 9:00 a.m., WH): The Administration, Congress,
industry, public interest groups, scientific community. Science and Belief: I. The Interface (4 Jan., 9:00 a.m., WH):
Averett S. Tombes, J. Paul Gilman, Anne M. Gorsuch, Henry A. Belief and inquiry in American society, geological and theo-
Waxman, John Quarles, David G. Hawkins, George Woodwell. logical perspectives, a third alternative.
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Joseph M. Dasbach, Rolf M. Sinclair, Langdon Gilkey, James W.
The Changing Regulatory Climate: Implications for Environ- Skehan, S.J., Stephen G. Brush.
mental Research (5 Jan., 2:30 p.m., WH): How can environ-
mental research be improved, policy and R&D planning, Science and Belief: II. Problems for Science Education (4 Jan.,
research and the implementation regulations, assessing the 2:30 p.m., WH): Science, rationality and the creation/evolu-
net benefits, upgrading environmental assessment. tion dispute, Kentucky, Iowa, Georgia, the dangerous posi-
Steven C. Ballard, Michael D. Devine, Curtis Moore, Thomas E. tion of the science teacher, a two-model course.
James, Mohamed T. El-Ashry, Thomas D. Crocker, Steven E. Robert W. Hanson, Dorothy Nelkin, Wayne A. Moyer, William
Plotkin. E. Ellis, Stanley L. Weinberg, Kenneth S. Saladin, Charles C.
Brooks, Craig E. Nelson, William M. Thwaites.
Regulatory Reform as It Affects Science and Technology
(6 Jan., 9:00 a.m., WH): Regulatory reform and managing Science and the Humanities (5 Jan., 9:00 a.m., 2:30 p.m., WH):
risk, economic considerations, air pollution, drug develop- The Commission on the Humanities, science and general
ment, risk analysis. education, continuing education, a common ground, physics,'
Daniel W. Fulmer, Michael S. Baram, Lester B. Lave, Mary E. technology and literacy.
Mogee, Sumner N. Claren, Fred Wilson, M. Granger Morgan, Gaines Post, Jr., Harry Woolf, Peter Buck, Michael S. Mahoney,
Michael Levin, George C. Eads, Judith Jones, Marvin Kosters, James M. Banner, Jr., Lewis Thomas, Steven Weinberg, William
Thomas Hopkins. 0. Baker, Nannerl 0. Keohane.
Processes and Issues in the Formulation of a National Industrial Multiple Criteria Decision-making (MCDM) (5 Jan., 9:00 a.m.,
Strategy (6 Jan., 9:00 a.m., 2:30 p.m., WH): Industrial innova- 2:30 p.m., WH): Multicriterion economic theory, suboptimal
tion, competitive assessment, the pattern of trade, planning regulation, managerial frameworks in the federal agencies,
model, boosting technology, pitfalls of government interven- policy analysis, power plant siting, second-order game the-
tion. ory, fuzzy multiple criteria, engineering and science, group
Theodore W. Schlie, Robert Parsons, Lou G. Tornatzky, Myles decision-making, compromise solutions, linear programming.
B. Boylan, William A. Hetzner, Timothy J. Hauser, C. Michael Milan Zeleny, Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen, Lester B. Lave,
Aho, Richard Nelson, Theodore Jenkins, Richard Goodman, Ambrose Goicoechea, Yacov Y. Haimes, Jared L. Cohon, Ken-
Richard N. Langlois, Margaret E. Dewar, Jeffrey Hart, Herbert neth E. Boulding, Po-Lung Yu, Christer Carlsson, Wolfram
I. Fusfeld, Richard Faust. Stadler, Ching-Lai Hwang, Thomas L. Vincent, Ralph E. Steuer,
Joel N. Morse, Andrzej Wierzbicki, George Leitmann.
After 75 Years of the FDA: What WiDl Be the Impact of
Governmental Regulations on Developing Drugs from New Science, Art, and Archeology (6 Jan., 9:00 a.m., WH): The
Technologies? (6 Jan., 2:30 p.m., WH): Industry, science, legal royal mummies, ancient objects, Rembrandt's creative pro-
and regulatory issues. cess.
Robert G. Pinco, David A. Knapp, Jere E. Goyan, Stuart Saul Krasner, Jacqueline S. Olin, James E. Harris, Garman
Nightingale. Harbottle, Maryan W. Ainsworth, Thomas W. Chase.
Risk Analysis, Risk Assessment, Risk Regulation (7 Jan., 9:00 Subjective Science? (6 Jan., 2:30 p.m., WH): Craniology,
a.m., WH): Perceived risk, environmental risk, market mech- women and medicine, sociobiology, policy-makers.
anisms, health effects, public risks. Shirley M. Malcom, Michele L. Aldrich, Rayna D. Green,
Hans W. Gottinger, Wilhelm Krelle, Paul Slovic, James R. Stephen Jay Gould, Estelle R. Ramey, H. B. Graves III, Mervyn
Meginniss, Peter C. Fishburn, Richard Zeckhauser, R. K. Sarin. M. Dymally.
Statistical Modeling for Risk Assessment (7 Jan., 2:30 p.m., What Happened to the Idea of Moving Continents After We-
WH): Risk management, rare events, food constituents, expo- gener Proposed It? (7 Jan., 9:00 a.m., WH): Continental
sure estimates, the courts and technological risk, limits of European response, reversal of the Earth's magnetic field,
knowledge. Russian response, paleontologists' response.
30 OCTOBER 1981 541Harold L. Burstyn, Henry Frankel, Albert V. Carozzi, Neil Arlene P. Maclin, Leroy Colquitt, Lloyd M. Cooke, H. Guyford
Opdyke, Ekaterina Miljutina, Stephen Jay Gould. Stever, John B. Slaughter, Robert Finnell, Joseph Martinez,
Shirley M. Malcom, W. Barry McLaughlin, Melvin Webb.
The Laboratories of Alexander Graham Bell (7 Jan., 2:30 p.m.,
WH): Brantford, teacher of deaf children, Baddeck, Bell Science and Policy-Science and Culture: Science in General
Laboratories. Education (6 Jan., 9:00 a.m., WH): Before and after college,
J. William McGowan, Lilian Grosvenor Jones, R. H. Spencer, outside the classroom.
George W. Fellendorf, Donald Arseneau, Dean Gillette. Ezra Shahn, Stanley Goldberg, F. James Rutherford, Dennis
Flanagan, Elizabeth Cutter, Stephen Jay Gould, Lynn Miller.
Systems Methodology in Modern Science (7 Jan., 2:30 p.m.,
International Inn): Autopoiesis, evolution and epistemology, Talk with the Public: Expanding Opportunities for Scientists
unifying theories, subjectivity, intelligence in technologies. and Engineers in Science-Technology Centers (6 Jan., 2:30
Milan Zeleny, Heinz Von Foerster, Nicholas Rescher, Dan Rose, p.m., WH): Involvement by scientists, communicating with
Brian R. Gaines, Manfred Kochen, John Chalmers, Kenneth E. the public, Fernbank experience, science centers and the
Boulding, Robert Rosen. public.
Sheila Grinell, William G. Wells, Jr., F. James Rutherford,
Victor Weiskopf, John S. Rigden, Kay Da1vis, Joel N. Bloom.
18. Science Education and Understanding
A Challenge for American Education: Scientific Literacy in
The Changing Role of the Mathematical and Computer Sciences Japan, the Germanies, and the Soviet Union (7 Jan., 9:00 a.m.,
in Precollege Education (4 Jan., 9:00 a.m., CH): The computer/ CH): Contemporary Japan, the two Germanies, Soviet chal-
calculator age, quality education, changes in mathematics lenge.
curricula, statistical bridges, technology for instruction. Joseph I. Lipson, Margrete Siebert Klein, Vivian Edmiston
Truman A. Botts, Richard D. Anderson, Peter J. Denning, James Todd, Kay Michael Troost, Izaak Wirszup.
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T. Fey, Stephen E. Fienberg, Alphonse Buccino.
The Current Status and Alternative Futures of Science Educa-
tion in the United States (7 Jan., 2:30 p.m., CH): Secondary
The Developing Crisis in the Mathematics Classroom: Causes schools, community and junior colleges, elementary schools,
and Some Cures (4 Jan., 2:30 p.m., CH): Inadequate prepara- alternative futures.
tion, qualifications of education majors, secondary-school Donald W. McCurdy, Robert E. Yager, Arthur Cohen, Pamela
mathematics curriculum, how to teach mathematics. Ebert-Flattau, Vincent N. Lunetta.
Henry L. Adler, Richard D. Anderson, Joan R. Leitzel, W.
Timothy Weaver, Zalman P. Usiskin, Harold R. Jacobs. Engineering Manpower and Education Needs in the '80s
(8 Jan., 9:00 a.m., 1:30 p.m., CH): Congressional perspective,
Saving and Using Our Human Scientific Resources (5 Jan., 9:00 effective utilization, military view, professional societies,
a.m., CH): America's minorities, Atlanta Resource Center, needs of industry, what response, faculty recruitment and
access to a profession, Appalachian Technical Association, retention, manpower and education planning, research equip-
removing the age switch. ment and facilities needs, technology transfer for profit.
Esther A. H. Hopkins, Anna J. Harrison, Mervyn M. Dymally, Stephen Kahne, Donald F. Marlowe, George E. Brown, Jr.,
Thomas Cole, William J. Skawinski, Albert J. Fritsch, Phyllis A. Hans C. Cherney, William J. Hilsman, Thelma Estrin, Robert P.
Brauner. Stambaugh, Joseph M. Pettit, Daniel C. Drucker, Bruno A.
Boley, John C. Crowley, Benson P. Lee.
Science and Engineering Education for Minorities: An Agenda
for the '80s (5 Jan., 2:30 p.m., CH): Private sector role, The Changing Environment for Science Communication
priorities, national productivity. (8 Jan., 9:00 a.m., 1:30 p.m., WH): Covering science on a
Schedule of Contributed Papers
At the Washington Meeting, contributed papers will be presented in poster session format only; there will be no slide
sessions. Abstracts for the individual papers will be found in the Abstracts ofPapers volume, which is available on site to
all registrants. The poster sessions will be held at the Washington Hilton Hotel and are scheduled as follows:
* Poster Session I-A (4 Jan., 11:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m.). * Poster Session ITT-A (6 Jan., 11:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m.).
American Junior Academy of Science (A): Research Clinical Psychology; Neurology.
Papers by High School Students.
* Poster Session HI-B (% Jan., 1:30 p.m.-3:00 p.m.).
* Poster Session I-B (4 Jan., 1:30 p.m.-3:00 p.m.). Experimental and Cognitive Psychology; Education.
American Junior Academy of Science (B): Research
Papers by High School Students.
* Poster Session IV-A (7 Jan., 11:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m.).
* Poster Session II-A (5 Jan., 11:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m.). Social Sciences.
Biological Sciences; Agriculture.
* Poster Session IV-B (7 Jan., 1:30 p.m.-3:00 p.m.).
* Poster Session 11-B (5 Jan., 1:30 p.m.-3:00 p.m.). Mathematics and Computing; Physical Sciences;
Medical Sciences; Health Care. Energy.
542 SCIENCE, VOL. 214national level, the local press, risks and benefits, working with Arctic Science Policy for the Next Two Decades (8 Jan., 1:30
the media, how good is the message, news about science, p.m., CH): View from Congress, Alaska, marine science,
public's right to know. terrestrial environment, energy development.
Sharon Dunwoody, Sharon M. Friedman, Carol L. Rogers, J. Thomas Dutro, Jr., Louis DeGoes, Frank H. Murkowski, T.
Cristine Russell, David W. Crisp, Dennis O'Leary, Carl E. Neil Davis, Vera Alexander, Albert W: Johnson, F. Geoffrey
Sagan, Howard J. Lewis, William Bennett, Jon Franklin, George Larminie, David M. Hickock.
W. Tressel.
20. Arms Control and Security
19. Science and Technology Policy
Biological and Health Effects of the Nuclear Industry and
The Support of Scientific Research in the Eighties (3 Jan., 1:30 Nuclear Weapons: A Current Evaluation (4 Jan., 9:00 a.m.,
p.m., CH): National Science Foundation, Atomic Energy 2:30 p.m., CH): Uranium mining and milling, low-level radia-
Commission, Department of Energy, Department of Defense, tion, nuclear power production, power plant accidents, evalu-
National Institutes of Health, private foundations. ation, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, psychological issues, medical
Rolf M. Sinclair, D. Allan Bromley, Donald N. Langenberg, problems of survivors, nuclear war, preventive medicine
Alvin W. Trivelpiece, Thomas Malone, Richard Lyman, George model.
Millburn. Carl J. Johnson, Joseph K. Wagoner, Alice M. Stewart, George
W. Kneale, Thomas F. Mancuso, Bernd Franke, Karl Z. Mor-
The Politics of Science and the Role of Strategic Planning gan, John C. Cobb, Stuart C. Finch, Robert J. Lifton, Herbert L.
(4 Jan., 9:00 a.m., 2:30 p.m., CH): View from industry, view Abrams, Bernard T. Feld, Helen M. Caldicott.
from Congress, view from the states, public sector organiza-
tions, federal agencies, pitfalls and evolution of strategic Chemical ond Biological Warfare: Past, Present, and Future
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planning. (5 Jan., 9:00 a.m., CH): Limits of unilateral restraint, legal
Phyllis Kahn, Rhett Speer, William G. Wells, Jr., Charles W. constraints.
Steger, Jr., Irwin Feller, Walter A. Hahn, Peter Gove, Steven H. Arthur H. Westing, Charles H. Bay, Matthew S. Meselson,
Flajser, Richard Hodes, Robert C. Ketcham, Edmund M. Burke, Jonathan King, Robert P. Mikulak.
Robert C. Stuart, Vary T. Coates, Ethan T. Smith.
Soviet Policies and U.S. Responses on Arms Control and
Who Controls Scientific Data? (5 Jan., 9:00 a.m., 2:30 p.m., National Security (5 Jan., 2:30 p.m., CH): Perceptions of each
CH): Intellectual property, clinical trials, publication of data, other's arms control and national security policies.
peer review, public's right to know, sharing statistical and Everett Mendelsohn, Georgi Arbatov, Stephen F. Cohen, Ray-
research data, professional and legal issues, access to federal mond Garthoff, David Holloway, James Leonard.
statistical data.
Rosemary A. Chalk, Stephen E. Fienberg, Dorothy Nelkin, Do ABMs Have a Future? (6 Jan., 9:00 a.m., CH): Characteris-
Robert S. Gordon, Jr., Arnold S. Relman, Sidney M. Wolfe, tics and capabilities, ABM Treaty, future options, congres-
Peter Raven-Hansen, Jerome M. Clubb, Joe S. Cecil, J. Timothy sional and public concerns.
Sprehe.
Herbert Scoville, Jr., Jack Ruina, Barry Carter, Anne H. Cahn.
Managing Peaceful Change: Seen East/West or North/South, The Relevance of Military Capability: What It Can and Cannot
It's One World! (6 Jan., 9:00 a.m., 2:30 p.m., CH): Interna- Do (6 Jan., 2:30 p.m., CH): Economic limits, providing real
tional security, a developing country's perspective, financing
security and modernization, science and technology in indus- security, influencing others, securing the nation's interest.
Lloyd J. Dumas, John K. Galbraith, Richard Barnet, Roger
trialization, life sciences, appropriate science and technology, Fisher.
scientists in developing countries.
Rodney W. Nichols, J. William McGowan, Herman Pollack, Ivan Striking a Balance: Scientific Freedom and National Security
L. Head, Edmundo Flores, Robert Perry, Nyle Brady, H. B. G.
Casimir, Thomas R. Odhiambo, Y. Nayudamma, Abdus Salam, (7 Jan., 9:00 a.m., CH): Staunching scientific information
James Malone, John Sewell. flow, the Atomic Energy Act, cryptography.
Mary M. Cheh, Peter J. Denning, Bobby R. Inman, Harold P.
International Science Programs: Issues, Constraints, and Op- Green, Daniel C. Schwartz, Paul N. McCloskey.
portunities (7 Jan., 9:00 a.m., CH): Benefits to basic science,
applied systems analysis, desertification, technology transfer, Scientists and the Arms Race (7 Jan., 2:30 p.m., CH): "The
mood of Congress. Day After Trinity," J. Robert Oppenheimer.
Dorothy S. Zinberg, Jean M. Johnson, Walter A. Rosenblith, Harold A. Feiveson, Martin Sherwin, Charles Weiner.
Roger E. Levien, Priscilla Reining, Steward S. Flaschen, Paul C.
Maxwell. Paucity or Plenty: Natural Resources Availability, Global Se-
curity, and U.S. National Interests (8 Jan., 9:00 a.m., CH):
Policy Outlook for Science and Technology (7 Jan., 2:30 p.m., Which natural resource supplies, U.S. foreign policy, sharing
CH): Technical impacts, critique, users' responses. the Earth.
Susan G. Hadden, John Logsdon, Kenneth Prewitt, James Sut- Bill L. Long, James L. Malone, Julian L. Simon, Erik Eckholm,
tle, Richard A. Rettig, Norman Hackerman, Dennis Barnes, Emery N. Castle, Nyle Brady.
Donald Langenburg, Edward McGaffigan.
Technology for Defense: What's Needed? (8 Jan., 1:30 p.m.,
Science and the Career Public Service (8 Jan., 9:00 a.m., CH): CH): Maintaining the military balance, alternatives, missions
Federal personnel system, legislative branch, government for high technology, informing the public.
manager. Gerald P. Dinneen, Patricia A. McFate, Thomas Moss, Rodney
Albert H. Teich, Thomas J. Wilbanks, Reginald M. Jones, Don W. Nichols, William J. Perry, Richard L. Garwin, Noel Gayler,
K. Price, Richard E. Stephens. Charles Corddry.
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