Word: bios
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...immediate question," Pattullo said, "is whether Harvard should approve the building of this containment facility on the third floor of the Bio Labs." Much of the debate at Harvard and nationally has centered on how stringently isolated such facilities must be in order to ensure that no new, potentially dangerous organisms escape...
...procession of problems is endless. Late one afternoon he's on the phone, steady, for an hour, motioning with his free hand while he talks: "Yeah, 20 people missed that one. Yeah, it really does meet at that hour. Yeah, we have to give you a Bio exam at that time, so a proctor will pick you up and escort you there..." He keeps at his fingers a "special case book," a bluebook filled with the names of students who have somehow gotten out of the strict and orderly progression of exam period...
...negative answers, then I have to stop and decide whether I have some good reasons for going to medical school. Those questions are integral to what I foresee as my future, yet, if I cannot relate a career in medicine to them, then did I struggle through organic and Bio 2 for nothing? And even if my career does not interfere with my long-term goals, is scratching my way to and through medical school worth all the time and money if it is not related to my goals, and if I risk losing some of my commitment...
Died. William Bennett Kouwenhoven, 89, innovative electrical and bio-medical engineer who developed lifesaving heart resuscitation techniques; in Baltimore. Kouwenhoven, who served more than 60 years on the Johns Hopkins faculty, discovered in the 1930s that a brief jolt of electricity applied to a fibrillating heart muscle could restore the organ to a steady pace. While working on a portable defibrillator for use without surgery, Kouwenhoven also found that a stopped heart could often be restarted by brisk, repeated pressure on the breastbone. External cardiac massage has since been used by laymen and physicians to save countless lives...
...Hotchner's play attempted to string together several Hemingway short stories to dramatize the life of the Nobel prize winning author. Despite the help of Rod Steiger in the lead role, the play did not succeed and Hunter came away from the performance feeling the fault was in the "bio play" format of the work. Hunter explains. "Such plays follow the chronology line of a person's life and present the essence of the main character as his of her reaction to a succession of events." For Hunter this format was limiting...