Word: center
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Maintaining that the problem of food policy is one of distribution rather than of production, Nicholas N. Eberstadt '76, a research fellow of the Center for Population Studies, said, "Something approaching extreme poverty and hunger still exists in China today...
...patients. The hospitals were jammed and poorly funded in most states. The idea was compelling: since psychiatric hospitals could presumably do little more than store patients, those who responded to the new antipsychotic medication could be released to their families and treated as outpatients. Under the Community Mental Health Center Act of 1963, 647 local centers have been set up to treat such "deinstitutionalized" patients, and also to bring low-cost care to the rest of the public, particularly the poor...
...while these chemicals produce a rapid return to normal, or at least socially acceptable behavior, in some patients, they also act as chemical restraints: they calm the schizophrenic but often turn him into little more than a zombie in the process. As Psychologist Steven Matthysse of the Mailman Research Center explains, while agitation and disordered thought diminish in the drugged patient, the drugs do very little to move the patient toward recovery or to help him relate to other people. Says Matthysse: "It's a sad thing, but a schizophrenic [on drugs] is very rarely motivated to do anything really...
...trials performed by one pharmaceutical company, patients at Manhattan's Eastern Women's Center had trouble following the printed instructions. One potential problem for kit users: some women tend to rush into the tests, failing to wait at least nine days after a missed period, as the instructions direct. Thus they get negative results even when they are pregnant...
...minority on the nuclear power issue is turning into the majority," Thomas Jacobson, a Clamshell official said. Anti-nuclear groups plan a variety of demonstrations throughout the week, including a noon rally at the Prudential Center to demand a nuclear moratorium, a State House march following the rally, and a talk given by California Gov. Edmund G. Brown in New Hampshire today...