Word: galen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Rich Galen, who runs GOPAC, the political-action committee organized by Newt Gingrich, thinks it's best for the G.O.P. to content itself with smaller initiatives like that, at least for a while. After a year of impeachment fever, "the party is just starting to chew solid food again, so it's better to take it in small bites," says Galen. But after Monica, the G.O.P. is divided between hard-liners who cannot abide the thought that Clinton got away and moderates who are worried that the "activist base"--the Christian right and other conservatives who will figure strongly...
...exception was the work of Galen, an immensely productive, Greek-speaking physician who lived much of his life in Rome. By the of his death around A.D. 201, the indefatigable Galen had written some 350 treatises detailing his own experimental work in anatomy and physiology. Although he added much to medical knowledge, his studies were based largely on monkeys and farm animals and thus were frequently unreliable in their conclusions about human anatomy. But the sheer prodigiousness of Galen's output and the aura of infallibility that surrounded him served to perpetuate his errors and stifle further research. His work...
Like Hippocrates, Galen had become a medical icon, and it would take a bold idol smasher to undo him. History found the perfect candidate in Andreas Vesalius, a contentious young Flemish physician who, in his single-minded pursuit of the correct human anatomy, cared not a whit about Galen's untouchable authority. Gifted with intelligence, drive and the courage to stick with his convictions, he went his solitary way, dissecting cadaver after cadaver until he had made enough unbiased observations to write a book that would forever transform medicine's image of the human structure. Vesalius was 29 when...
Though their contributions were made in eras far apart, the Hippocratics, Galen and Vesalius all shared the same messianism that still characterizes today's outstanding medical achiever. Their discoveries were only the beginning of their contributions. Public demonstrations, the writing of treatises and books and the teaching of both colleagues and students became the vehicles for their individual crusades to better the state of medical care. Among them, like a constantly humanistic refrain playing softly in the background, the credo of the ancient Greek physicians prevailed. Nowhere is that principle more eloquently expressed than in the memorable words found...
...that either party won't hang on to every last donated dollar they can justify. Of the $122,000 targeted in the TIME reports, $20,000 still resides in the coffers of the National Republican Congressional Committee. "We'll take a look at (that) in due course," said Rich Galen, spokesman for the committee. "There's no emergency." Democrats, with their party already $14.4 million in debt and facing repayment of $1.5 million more in contributions now judged improper, will try to increase the GOP's sense of urgency...