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Such questions, posted on big bulletin boards, are part of a game that in the past year has enticed over 30,000 visitors to the Cleveland Health Museum. Beside each question is a little flapdoor; behind it, visitors find the answer (answer to these three questions: No).* The museum is full of other tricky gadgets: e.g., by turning a crank, a visitor gets a model demonstration of the right and wrong ways to brush teeth; by dialing his age, he learns how much longer (actuarially, but not actually) he may expect to live...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Health Game | 8/30/1943 | See Source »

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