Word: cancer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...will serve to confirm people in their choices. If they haven't made choices, it will probably confirm them in their confusion." University of California Political Scientist Aaron Wildavsky faulted Carter for "overpromising" and noted: "For a second, I thought he was going to promise a cure for cancer...
...Technology for their investigations of subatomic particles, and gave the chemistry prize to William Lipscomb of Harvard University for his work in explaining the structure of the chemicals called boranes. Together with the previous awards of the medicine prize to Baruch Blumberg of Philadelphia's Institute for Cancer Research and Carleton Gajdusek of the National Institutes of Health, and the economics prize to Economist Milton Friedman of the University of Chicago (TIME, Oct. 25), last week's winners gave the U.S. a clean sweep of the 1976 Nobel science awards...
Lipscomb's work could have an impact on medicine; experiments are under way in the use of boranes in cancer therapy, and Lipscomb is now using his techniques to determine how digestive enzymes work. Lipscomb is as many faceted as his molecules; he is a tennis buff, plays the clarinet in local chamber orchestras, and is a genuine Kentucky colonel. His own concern about his Nobel: "I'm afraid everyone will think I'm finished, but I still have so much more...
Increased use of the cyclotron by the Massachusetts General Hospital for cancer treatments has raised radiation levels to the point where the Harvard Committee on Radio Isotopes recommended earlier this year that a new location be found for the Oxford St. Day Care Center...
Which brings us now to the argument that's been around as long as pulled hamstrings; can Ivy League football stack up against the major college teams or is it glorified British Bulldog played by a bunch of guys who think that Ara Parseghian is an incurable form of cancer...