Word: agee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...glory of the Arab world," the Israelis face a crisis in cooperation. The Arabs feel the uncertainty of Gaza's status, and scent change. Urchins openly hawk cigarette lighters bearing Nasser's picture. Authorities last week arrested 20 Gaza teachers for assigning teen-age pupils to write essays on the need for killing Israelis. Merchants were refusing to accept Israeli money, and the only shop that the Israelis had opened in the strip reported no trade because purchases could be made only in Israeli pounds...
...four provinces stretch from Libya in the north to the Atlantic Ocean in the south, produce a major share of the world's plywood. Unlike Madagascar, whose 4,800,000 inhabitants launched a bloody revolt against France in 1947, Black Africa has just begun to emerge from Stone Age politics...
Even more startling than recent overall advances in surgery is the improved outlook for aged patients who need operations. Surgeons used to dread such cases; all too often the patient went into shock on the operating table, or died soon after of pneumonia. How radically things have changed is pointed out by Surgeon Sidney E. Ziffren of the State University of Iowa. "Successful surgery is now constantly performed in the aged," he notes. "Surgery should not be withheld because of a patient's age...
...where its persistent radioactivity (half-life 28 years) may cause cancer. Collecting 500 samples of fresh human bone from widely separated parts of the world, the Columbia men analyzed them delicately and concluded that "at the present time, strontium 90 can be found in all human beings, regardless of age or geographic location s . ." The amount is not large. Averaging all the results together, they reckoned that the human race now has .12 micromicrocuries* of strontium 90 for each gram of body calcium. This is about one ten-thousandth of "the presently accepted maximum permissible concentration...
...Neumann was a man people liked on sight. Those who barely knew him called him Johnny; he might have been a popular restaurateur or candy-shop proprietor. He was, instead, the greatest mathematician of his time. His ideas and personality had a profound effect on today's scientific age...