Word: agee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...possible to look at the moon flight and shudder at the vast, impersonal, computerized army of interchangeable technicians who brought it about. It is also possible to see in this endeavor the crucial gifts for organization and cooperation that alone will make survival in the post-industrial age feasible. It is possible to look at the moon flight and be dismayed at the crass expenditure of money, sweat and time, the sheer materialist effort, the ultimate triumph of gadgetry, the unabashed hubris of technique. But it is also possible to see in it the genius that is providing the abundance...
...Scotch and soda before dinner-or "even after dinner," she confides-but managed to give up smoking two years ago. Her husband, the Chogyal (King), does not smoke either-he prefers to chew betel nut. Droll, fluent in English and forward-looking, he appears years younger than his age...
...mink of many colors get sick with a sort of softening of the brain, while smoke-hued, so-called Aleutian mink get liver and kidney disease, with added symptoms suggestive of human arthritis. Each year, in the highlands of New Guinea, a hundred or more members of the Stone Age Fore tribe die of kuru, an incurable degeneration of the brain...
...Age and Parkinsonism. His patience paid off. From New Guinea, Gajdusek brought back parts of kuru victims' brains. He injected some of the material into chimpanzees, and waited-for two years. Then the chimps began to show the wobbly gait, slavering and eye-crossing that mark the human disease. When they died, their brains showed essentially the same type of damage as those of human kuru victims...
...opposite kind of age phenomenon occurs in Parkinson's disease, or Parkinsonism. At Massachusetts General Hospital, Neurologists David C. Poskanzer and Robert Schwab found records of only 22 cases in 42 years before 1917; since then, there have been more than 1,800 cases. Virtually all recent victims were born within ten years of 1897, and their age at the time their disease developed has been going up steadily-from an average of 34 in 1920 to at least 61 now. The Poskanzer-Schwab explanation: most recent Parkinsonism victims were infected during a 1915-26 epidemic of encephalitis lethargica...