Word: beckers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year-old Australian newcomer named Philippe Mora, it began as a research job on the copious surviving archives of Nazi film after Lieberson bought the rights to Speer's Inside the Third Reich. But what altered the film makers' intentions was the discovery, by Film Historian Lutz Becker, of Hitler's own home movies - some five hours of Agfacolor stock, shot mainly by Eva Braun and her friends, of the Führer and his court relaxing (if that is the word) in his mountain retreat at Obersalzberg. The film had been lying un noticed...
...York researcher believes that the power to regenerate may be provided artificially. Dr. Robert Becker, a professor of orthopedic surgery at the State University of New York's Upstate Medical Center and a medical investigator at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Syracuse, has already succeeded in stimulating regeneration in laboratory animals and has begun trying to apply his technique to humans. Becker has started a series of tests aimed at producing bone growth in patients with recalcitrant, or non-healing, fractures. His work could lead to new and faster ways to heal broken bones, and may someday even...
...Becker's work in tissue regeneration dates back to 1958, when he and his colleagues began experiments to determine whether electrical stimulation could trigger bone and other tissue growth in animals. Earlier research had already established that the chances of regeneration in a species depend upon the proportion of nerve tissue in the area of regeneration. Becker points out that man, with roughly 70% of his total nerve mass concentrated in his brain, cannot regenerate. Salamanders, with only half the mass of their nerve tissue in their brains and the remainder spread throughout their bodies, can grow new tails...
...Becker, whose current studies are being funded by both the VA and the National Institutes of Health, stresses that he has no intention of trying to grow such spare parts in humans. But he does believe that the power to regenerate tissue could prove important in other medical applications. Techniques that could grow new tissue on a broken bone might ultimately replace joint cartilage destroyed by arthritis. They might even help patients with hearts damaged by disease to grow new cardiac tissue...
There were several reasons for the calm mood prevalent among Drinan supporters. First, their candidate had been picked by the polls to win the Fourth Congressional District by a comfortable margin. The Becker Research Corporation, which conducts surveys for the Boston Globe, gave Drinan a 21-point lead as of September 23. One week later, the research group released the results of another poll which showed Drinan leading by ten points. Obviously Linsky, a 31-year-old liberal Republican who had served in the State House of Representatives for six years, was gaining, but Drinan's followers were convinced that...