Word: factors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...think the most restraining factor is the failure of our society to provide divinity schools with financial resources comparable to those now entrusted to institutions of scientific education for new types of innovation," Miller added...
...Reno and Las Vegas, where gambling, drinking and divorce create a high-crisis quotient. The West Coast's rate is probably high because of the large number of people who move there after retirement and bring with them the increased suicide rale that goes with advancing years. Another factor is that the West Coast attracts the ambitious and restless who are inclined to react bitterly to failure. Some of the lowest suicide rates in the U.S. are in Mississippi and South Carolina, relatively static societies where even the poorest people tend to have roots and fixed status...
Artists, professional men and top executives commit suicide more than other people; two in every 100 doctors kill themselves, perhaps because of the ready availability of the means (a factor that also ups the suicide rate of policemen and soldiers). More surprising is the high rate of suicide among psychiatrists...
...with his favorite shotgun. Hemingway's suicide raises the problem of whether the tendency can be inherited (his father shot himself when the author was 29, and his sister died, apparently of an overdose of drugs, last month). Studies of identical twins indicate that there is no genetic factor, but suicide does run in some families-perhaps because of the suggestibility that occasionally produces epidemics of suicide, such as that in 18th century Germany in imitation of Goethe's sick but romantic hero, Werther. Marilyn Monroe felt that she had good cause to hate the world...
...Clotting Factor. To explain the higher blood viscosity of Raynaud's victims, the Walder group now indicts an excess of fibrinogen, one of the several substances involved in the blood-clotting mechanism, and a major factor in blood sludging. On this theory, the surgeons are treating 40 patients with intravenous drips of blood thinners ("plasma expanders") and anti-clotting drugs. The researchers claim no dramatic effects, but report cautiously that these treatments have improved the patients' peripheral circulation, "at least temporarily." In the more serious cases, they say, the treatments "were of considerable value...