Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Teller's hectic schedule has damaged his health: suffering from ulcerative colitis, he takes daily doses of atropine and phenobarbital, sticks to a doctor-ordered diet, painful for a man who devours food with Hungarian gusto. But a damaged constitution has not damped his crusader's fervor. The late great Nuclear Physicist Enrico Fermi once said to him, with affectionate exasperation: "In my acquaintance, you are the only monomaniac with several manias." Princeton Physicist John Wheeler, who worked on both the A-bomb and the H-bomb, put it more truly. The essence of Teller's character...
...Radioactive evidence underlined the hotly debated importance of fats in the diet of patients with coronary atherosclerosis (narrowing of the heart's arteries by fatty deposits). A Philadelphia team headed by Dr. William Likoff fed volunteers a test meal containing radioactive fat. In normal subjects the fat concentration in the blood reached its peak in six hours, almost disappeared in 24 hours. In subjects with high blood levels of cholesterol, or with coronary disease, or with both, the fat reached a higher concentration in the blood, and much more of it remained there 24 hours later. The researchers...
...Other Germany. In contrast to the stodgy, opinion-packed journals that have traditionally formed Germany's newspaper diet, Springer's sprightly, independent papers concentrate on news and features. His morning Bild-Zeitung, a frothy, picture-filled tabloid that has the biggest circulation (3,000,000) of any newspaper on the Continent, pays little attention to politics and only skimpily covered Germany's election campaign. He launched it only five years ago after a London trip exposed him to the British popular press. To build readership, he borrowed a bag of tricks from U.S. and British newspapering...
...most popular courses at Amherst College -Religion 22. Students were not particularly surprised: Episcopalian Professor James Alfred Martin Jr. is celebrated for his offbeat exams. (Once he directed students to write TV scripts for the program You Are There at the Council of Nicaea and the Diet of Worms.) Last week, in reprinting Martin's most recent final, the Amherst Alumni News provided readers with a thought-provoker and argument-starter of uncommon ingenuity. As the exam question continues, the beer-guzzling Wise Guy gives this racy history of the Christian faith...
Ross distrusted most of those who wrote for The New Yorker, says Thurber. "He nursed an editorial phobia about what he called the functional: 'bathroom and bedroom stuff.' Years later he deleted from a Janet Planner 'London Letter' a forthright explanation of the nonliquid diet imposed upon the royal family and dignitaries during the coronation of George VI. 'So-and-so can't write a story without a man in it carrying a woman to bed,' he wailed. And again, 'I'll never print another [John] O'Hara story...