Word: eden
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...Great Society is in large measure based on belated governmental recognition of the complex needs of an urban nation. Indeed, the President himself, as James MacGregor Burns points out, has become the "Chief Executive of Metropolis." Not for 50 years has the heartland of America been the physiocratic demi-Eden of American myth, the pastoral paradise hymned by Jefferson and Thoreau, limned by Eakins and Wyeth. The ganglia of history's richest nation lie today in the inchoate, intermeshed agglomerations of city, suburb and country that have become Megalopolis americanus. Such is its present rate of growth that...
...that prying into tomorrow is suspect if not downright dangerous-the sort of feeling that made Dante consign soothsayers to the fourth chasm of the Inferno. On the contrary, the U.S. readily accepted the fact that modern science established progress as a faith and the future as an earthly Eden. Yet recently, the American passion for the future has taken a new turn. Leaving Utopians and science-fiction writers far behind, a growing number of professionals have made prophecy a serious and highly organized enterprise...
Spontaneous abortion in sheep and beef cattle seems an odd subject for study by a New York City pediatrician. But Dr. Alvin N. Eden of Wyckoff Heights Hospital has been studying it, and he thinks that his colleagues ought to do the same. The wriggly microbe, Vibrio fetus, which is one of the most common causes of animal abortions, he reports in the Journal of Pediatrics, is probably responsible for a similar, and hitherto generally unrecognized, venereal disease...
Much the same thing may happen in humans, says Pediatrician Eden. There have been 26 confirmed Vibrio fetus infections in men. There have been only eight reported cases involving women, all associated with pregnancy. "This must be more than coincidence," says Dr. Eden. The eight pregnancies ended in two abortions, four newborn deaths, only two babies surviving. Three of the infants who died had a raging vibrio inflammation of the brain and its covering. The women, suggests Dr. Eden, were infected during coitus, and though they may have shown no sign of illness themselves, they transmitted the vibrio...
...possible to say whether Vibrio fetus is rare in human beings, or a common but usually undetected cause of prematurity or spontaneous abortion. The place to look for the evidence, says Dr. Eden, is in the placenta...