Word: agee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Peck's patients, the youngest was 16, the oldest a man of 46 who had been plagued with acne since age 13. For four months, they took several capsules of the drug each day. By the end of that period, the acne had vanished in nine patients. The skin of four others cleared two to ten months later. Even in the one "uncured" case, there was a 75% improvement. Better yet, write Peck and his colleagues in the New England Journal of Medicine, side effects were minimal and temporary: some chapped lips, skin dryness, minor nosebleeds and slight irritation...
With legions of adoring teen-age girls at every competition, Thomas is already the Donny Osmond of U.S. gymnastics. After a recent meet against Southern Illinois, Heidi Spoden, 14, clutched his freshly signed autograph and said, "I like him 'cause he's cute, and he's good, and he's so sure of himself in everything. He has it all." Not quite. There is still that gold medal to be won in Moscow...
Asimov skips quickly over his birth and early life in the tiny Russian town of Petrovichi, which he left at the age of three and does not fully remember. But he writes with total recall of his sister Marcia and brother Stanley (now assistant publisher of the Garden City, N.Y., daily Newsday) and of their early days in Brooklyn, where Papa Asimov serially owned five candy stores...
...lonely, insufferable kid was father of the gifted man. Forbidden to read the lurid pulp magazines sold in the store, Isaac pored over science-fiction monthlies. He soon began to send them short stories. At an age when many fellow students were struggling to express themselves, Asimov, who entered Columbia University's Seth Low Junior College at age 15, helped pay for his college and graduate school with fiction that sold for a penny a word. At a time when many young men were looking for their first postcollege jobs, Asimov published what became one of the most anthologized...
What he does best is simplify science for those who have little or no scientific training. But he also does well with specialists. Astronomer-Author Carl Sagan considers Asimov "the greatest explainer of the age." Says a Harvard research physicist: "Frankly, I read the man so that I can explain my own work to friends." Martin Gardner, an editor of Scientific American, calls Asimov "one of the top science writers in the business simply because, like all good novelists, he knows how to dramatize...