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- <text id=90TT0427>
- <title>
- Feb. 19, 1990: World Notes:Soviet Union
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Feb. 19, 1990 Starting Over
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 47
- World Notes
- SOVIET UNION
- Probing the Key to Genius
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> Just what made Andrei Sakharov tick? The Soviet Academy of
- Sciences' Brain Institute intends to find out. The mind that
- helped create the U.S.S.R.'s hydrogen bomb and spearheaded the
- Soviet dissident movement now lies cut into "blocks" and
- preserved in paraffin, awaiting examination by the institute's
- scientists.
- </p>
- <p> The organization was founded in 1926 to study the gray
- matter of Lenin, and according to director Oleg Adrianov, it
- has since probed "many, many tens of brains," including those
- of Joseph Stalin and writer Maxim Gorky. The results of
- specific studies are classified.
- </p>
- <p> Adrianov hopes the postmortem on Sakharov will shed light
- on the relationship between brain construction and scientific
- genius. But the Brain Institute is not especially interested
- in what made Sakharov the great dissident he was. Says
- Adrianov: "A political activist can be anybody, but not anybody
- can be a great scientist."
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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