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...commonest and most neglected illness in the U.S. today is money-sickness, Dr. William Kaufman told the American Psychiatric Association in Boston last week. And one reason why it is not often detected, said the Bridgeport (Conn.) psychosomaticist, is that many doctors have their own unresolved problems regarding the use of money. This serves as an unconscious check which keeps them from recognizing or investigating the abnormal psycho-economic behavior of their patients...
Every day hundreds of U.S. parents are faced with a problem which few of them know how to tackle: a son (more rarely, a daughter) who shows more interest in his own than in the opposite sex. Such cases are commonest in families that have been disrupted by the death of one parent, by divorce or separation, or by constant bickering between husband and wife. But they are also found, and all too often, in families that consider themselves normal in every way. Then parents scourge themselves with the question: "What did we do wrong...
Work at the Rockefeller Institute on pneumococci (the commonest pneumonia germs) led Manhattan-born Chemist Heidelberger to devise precise ways to measure antigens and antibodies and also a mysterious something in the blood, awkwardly called "complement." There had even been doubt as to whether complement was a substance or a state...
...answers: 1) May 14, 1948; 2) Ben-Zvi; 3) nine: 4) Kiddush is a consecration of the Sabbath over wine, and Kaddish is a prayer in memory of the dead; 5) 88. Commonest error: David Ben-Gurion for Isaac...
...Yale researchers found that 74% of the students reported they used alcoholic beverages. There was a higher proportion of drinkers among men (80%) than among women (61%). Drinking was commonest in private, nonsectarian, non-coeducational schools (92% of the men; 89% of the women), much lower in public coeducational institutions...