Word: carbon
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Investigators strongly suspect that the tic is neurotic in origin, related to the venting of aggression. Beginning in children as muscular twitches, the La Tourette syndrome gradually progresses to grunts and finally foul shouting. Doctors have tried everything from psychotherapy to sedatives and carbon dioxide inhalation, which is akin to a form of shock therapy. Lasting cures have proved as rare as the disease, but Psychologist David F. Clark now reports in the British Journal of Psychiatry that the treatment is contained in the symptoms...
...seems surprising enough that archaeologists should have missed such a find for so long-the area lies beneath a well-traveled air route to Bogota. Even more humbling is the knowledge that these aboriginal people were sophisticated enough to turn their hostile environment to such advantage. According to carbon 14 dating of a shell mound near the area, the newly discovered culture goes back to 3090 B.C., making it the oldest pottery site recorded in the New World. Only within recent years has earth-moving equipment, mechanized farming and malaria control made a 20th century dent on the ridged plains...
...future plans revolve around seeding everything from tornadoes to typhoons. The Soviets are testing sound as a possible way to disperse fog, have even suggested damming the Bering Strait to make the Arctic warmer. Several countries have suggested melting part of the icecap by coating it with heat-absorbing carbon. U.S. scientists are considering the possibility of generating dust clouds in space to form sunshades, or creating broad bands of ice-crystal cirrus clouds that would allow the ground beneath to cool...
...despair of their supporters, the others had fallen to noisy defeat. The loudest wails came from Brazil, whose team had won the cup in 1958 and 1962. A loss to Portugal became a nationwide calamity. From office buildings in Rio and São Paulo, clouds of black carbon paper and typewriter ribbon cascaded onto the streets below; flags were lowered to half-mast, and people wept in public...
...during World War II. Nailed to the cross by wrists and ankles, the victim, in a desperate struggle for breath, alternately shifted his weight from arms to legs until he slumped down utterly exhausted. With the body weight resting on the arms, the diaphragm could no longer expel carbon dioxide from the lungs, and thus the man died...