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NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Rus
sian-born Rudolph F. Zallinger,
63, is back working on the mons
ter work of art he started 40
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“The Age of Reptiles,” the
world-famous mural in Yale
UniversityPeabody Museum
of Natural History, has helped
popularize dinosaurs for gener
ations of youngsters. The 110-
feet long, 16-feet high mural
also won Zallinger a Pulitzer
Prize.
The Peabody’s roof sprang a
leak recently, and a small por
tion of the mural — about one
square foot — was damaged.
Zallinger, now a professor at the
University of Hartford art
school, was invited to do the
necessary restoring.
Zallinger was a young gradu
ate of Yale’s School of Fine Arts
when museum director Dr.
Albert Parr asked him to do a
series of drawings for a book
Parr was writing. In 1943, Parr
offered Zallinger a commission
for “The Age of Reptiles."
The mural in the museum’s
Great Hall of Dinosaurs
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fauna in the primeval
forest.
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and mottling, all he had
was vacuum 35 years of
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Jane or John Doe, job-
hunting, Fill out the application
at the chemical plant, then sub
mit to a required check aimed at
spotting genetic abnormalities.
The laboratory test deter
mines if the applicant is genetic
ally suitable for a job.
If the lab finds a bum gene
that predisposes the aspiring
worker to grave sickness when
exposed to chemicals in the
plant, that applicant will be
turned down.
This is not happening on a
large scale today, but it could be
in the future and the question is:
Will such procedures, meant to
protect the susceptible person
from an ailment and the com
pany from liability, be accept
able from an ethical standpoint?
Is it right to screen out work
ers because of genetic makeup
or even, as in the case of one
company today, a lifestyle habit
such as smoking cigarettes?
Scenarios along that line were
among those discussed at a Hast
ings Center symposium on
ethical issues in occupational
health.
From its founding in 1969,
the center, in Hastings-on-
Hudson, N.Y., has devoted its
attention to ethical issues that
have emerged as a result of the
biomedical revolution.
Dr. Willard Gaylin, president
and clinical professor of
psychiatry at Columbia Univer
sity’s College of Physicians and
Surgeons, said the issues include
informed consent, the defini
tion of death, behavior control,
human experimentation, and
the allocation of scarce medical
resources.
Typical questions: When is a
person dead? Who gets artificial
hearts if the technology becomes
approved and the supply is li
mited? Who gets the kidney
dialysis if funds for providing
the treatment are limited?
Gaylin said that by 1979 it was
apparent, “We had neglected a
question of profound social and
biomedical significance — the
question of occupational health
and safety.
“While we had concentrated
on examining the moral issues
involved in the practice of medi
cine, we had failed to examine
the moral issues raised by the
medical consequences of work,”
he said.
Estimates of damage Gaylin
cited:
—Chemical and physical
hazards in the workplace may
kill as many as 100,000 Amer
ican workers a year.
—Some estimates suggest
that between 20 percent and 38
percent of all cancers are work-
related.
“Faced with the enormity of
this problem, the Hastings Cen
ter in 1979 began to devote a
considerable portion of its re
search to the study of issues in
occupational health and illness,”
Gaylin said in his “Overview of
the Hastings Center Project on
Occupational Health.”
He said the study centered on
the ethical and moral problems
raised by corporate policies that
sought to:
—Screen out workers
thought to be genetically suscep
tible to workplace hazards.
—Prohibit the employment
of workers whose personal life
styles were thought to enhance
their vulnerability to occupa
tional disease.
—Bar all fertile women from
jobs that were believed to pose a
risk to their capacities to bear
healthy children.
Among questions probed by
Center experts during the past
three years are these:
—Should industry be permit
ted to screen all potential
workers?
—Should industry be permit
ted, even obliged, to monitor the
health status of workers already
employed?
“Central to our work on occu
pational health and safety has
been an interest in social justice
and attention to the questions of
freedom, autonomy and per
sonal dignity,” Gaylin said.
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PEORIA, Ill.:— Inside the un
pretentious walls and within the
almost dowdy laboratories of the
Northern Regional Research
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cluded technology to produce
penicillin on a large scale and
the discovery of Super Slurper,
a corn starch product that can
absorb up to 2,000 times its
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The Peoria facility is one of
four such regional centers oper
ated by the U.S. Department of
Agriculture, seeking new uses
for crops. The others are located
in New Orleans, Beltsville, Md.,
and Berkeley, Calif.
So far, researchers have
escaped any serious damage by
President Reagan’s budget
knife. While most domestic
programs have been cut, USDA
funding for agricultural re
search remains stable.
In Reagan’s proposed budget
for fiscal 1984, the centers
actually would get about a 4 per
cent increase in funding,
according to figures from the
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The center’s industrial coor
dinator, Roger Eisenhauer, an
employee for 25 years, said
there is a sharp contrast between
the center’s treatment by the
Carter administration and the
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During the Carter adminis
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Proposals would be made to cut
the funding, and Congress
might or might not have re
stored the cuts.
“It shook up a lot of people
and we lost several prominent
scientists as a result,” he said.
“Morale was low because it kept
happening over and over
again.”
Under the Reagan adminis
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to maintain the status quo.
The facility was established in
1938 because of large surpluses
of cereal grains.
“We seem to have come full
circle because, again, we have
another surplus situation,”
Eisenhauer said.
Research has been done on
corn, wheat, sorghum, oats, soy
beans and horticultural and spe
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