Synopsis of a Session at the Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Toronto, Canada, January 1981. Participating speakers were Alan L. Porter, Albert H. Teich, Dael Wolfle Herbert I. Fusfeld, Anthony R. Michaelis, Robert S. Cutler, Philip H. Birnbaum, Frederick A. Rossini, Daryl E. Chubin, Terry Connolly, Kenneth V. Anderson.
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