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Retiring Council members are: Dr. Chester M. Jones, Dr. Fiorindo A. Simeone, and Dr. Maxwell Finland...
Which is harder on the heart-work or leisure? This question got the full-dress treatment last week by 70 specialists from the U.S., Britain, Canada, Germany, Sweden and Finland, gathered in Milwaukee for a conference* on work and the heart. From studies designed to find out how much work a man can safely do after a heart attack, they developed some startling facts...
...their absence Molotov, one of the editors of Pravda, gave out Bolshevik policy: Demand the complete Marxist program forthwith. When the big Bolsheviks arrived, they pooh-poohed the youthful (27) Molotov's naive and uncompromising view. But when Lenin stepped out of his railroad car in the Finland Station, having been transported through Germany in a sealed car, it was seen that Molotov had been right: Lenin demanded "immediate peace [with Germany], bread and land," the whole Marxist book, and a little more besides...
Changing Definitions. Denmark was the first nation in Europe to enact sterilization laws (1929) ; Norway, Sweden, Finland and Iceland have followed suit. In the first 25 years of Denmark's plan, there were 8,600 sterilizations (in a population of 4,500,000). More than two-thirds were performed on mental defectives, of whom two-thirds were women. Of the 3,663 patients sterilized for reasons other than mental deficiency (e.g., physical deformities, deaf-mutism), seven-eighths were women. In recent years the number sterilized for feeblemindedness has dropped sharply (from 283 to 165 a year), partly because...
From Uncooked Fish. Another tapeworm partial to humans, Diphyllobothrium latum, is acquired by eating uncooked fish. It is common in Scandinavia, where raw fish livers are considered a delicacy. In some parts of Finland, 80% of the people are infected...