Word: dis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...patients. But in 1972, the U.S. Pub lic Health Service reluctantly admitted that it had done just that. In an effort to study the effects of syphilis on the human body, the PHS, in a Macon County, Ala., study, allowed 425 poor, un educated black men who had the dis ease, and who were recruited through local clinics, to go untreated. The dis closure of the 40-year study stirred an immediate outcry (TIME, Aug. 7, 1972) and led to a $1.8 billion suit against the Federal Government by lawyers rep resenting both those who had survived and the families...
Nathan writes with a certain dis taste for Mishima - which is natural enough since Mishima was, for all his exuberance and charm, a squirmingly unpleasant character; his brilliance had the phosphorescence of decay. All his life, he was explicitly and erotically in love with death. Suicide was the only act, he believed, that could make him comprehend his own existence. Just after Mishima disemboweled himself, his mother said: "This was the first time in his life that Kimitake [Mishima] did something he always wanted to do. Be happy...
...bishops' own committee on moral values painted an even more dis mal picture of an America gone morally mad with thievery, white-collar crime, "perjury and other violations of honesty at even the highest level of public life." The committee's report also scored economic exploitation of the poor, widespread pornography, violent entertainment and violent crime, more frequent divorce and not only wide acceptance of abortion but the beginning of acceptance of mercy killing. "In significant ways, contemporary Western culture is nonChristian; some would say it is anti-Christian," the report concluded. "Christian beliefs and values are actively...
...handle parrots or other pet birds. But psittacosis may not be the only ailment that bird owners can acquire from their feathered friends. A pair of English researchers report in The Lancet that the same organism that causes parrot fever may also bring on a form of heart dis ease. Doctors have long been looking for causes other than rheumatic fever for disease of the heart valves; it is only relatively recently, however, that some have noted a link between birds and heart problems. To examine the connection, Cardiologist Christopher Ward and Immunologist Anthony M. Ward (no kin) questioned...
...MILITARY AID TO TURKEY: President Ford's veto [of a bill cutting off arms aid for the Turks] renders the dis tinction even more clearly, because it was still another Administration decision favoring Turkey ... I tell you frankly that if this situation continues, there is danger that even the most pro-American Greeks will confuse the distinction between the American people and the American Administration...