Word: center
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...People are doing it left, right and center. It's not a sin any more-it's nothing nowadays...
Along with his wife Elaine, Denholtz, 50, who is chief of dental research at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, is the author of a new consumer's guide titled How to Save Your Teeth and Your Money (Van Nostrand Reinhold; $8.95). He chides Americans for spending nearly $9 billion a year on dental care "without the foggiest notion" of what their dentists are doing for them, and estimates that some 6 million people lose perfectly salvageable teeth each year, many at "extraction mills." Writes Denholtz, quoting a Pennsylvania insurance department estimate: 15% of all dentists are "incompetent, dishonest...
This procedure, allowing terminal burn patients to choose death, in effect, sooner rather than later, has been in use at the Los Angeles County-University of Southern California Medical Center's burn unit for two years. During that time, 21 of 24 patients diagnosed as "having injury without precedent of survival" have chosen ordinary medical care and an earlier death. The other three - all men characterized by hospital personnel as "take charge types" in their 50s or 60s - also died; the longest survivor lived seven days...
...attempted a huge step toward a distant planet and the interstellar space beyond it last week-but not without some unexpected difficulty. At Florida's Kennedy Space Center, an 1,800-pound spacecraft known as Voyager 2 was launched atop a Titan-Centaur rocket and aimed at Jupiter, 579 million miles and nearly two years away. Voyager 2 was hardly aloft, however, before it reported a malfunction in the boom that carries a key package of TV cameras and scientific instruments...
...money, however. In California, for instance, the cost of having a baby has risen from $16 per hospital day in 1950 to $175 in 1976, and now stands at about $1,500 per birth. By contrast, the cost of birth at midwife-run institutions like the Los Angeles Childbirth Center is as little as $300. The California department of consumer affairs asserts that even if only 10% of needy parents were allowed to use Medi-Cal money to pay licensed midwives, the state would save $10 million a year. State officials also report that only 37% of California...