Word: healthful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...World Health Organization assignment in Chile, Cotzias suspected that the brains of manganese-poisoned miners had suffered chemical changes. He tried a chemical treatment. "It proved to be wrong," says the ebullient and totally unabashed Cotzias. Working on the analogous symptoms in parkinsonism at Brookhaven, he tried another drug treatment. This involved efforts to raise the brain's content of melanin, the pigment in suntanned skin. "Wrong again!" declares Cotzias, with the energy of a small volcano. "The patient's skin got darker, but the tremor got worse...
...coeds are now seeking contraceptive help at the nearby Palo Alto Planned Parenthood center; its director, Gloria Davis, complains that the clinic is so crowded with students that high school teenagers from the community are being squeezed out. Dr. James McClenahan, director of Stanford's health center, agrees that the. university itself should probably take over. Dr. Richard U'Ren, a psychiatrist at the university health center, thinks otherwise. "What the health center should be dispensing to unmarried students is advice," he says. "If students want to go beyond that, it should be their responsibility, not the university...
...American" legislation, which prevents the Federal Government from purchasing foreign goods unless the price is more than 6% below that of comparable U.S. products. Repealing the law would help the Administration to press foreign countries to end equally ingenious barriers to trade, including European border taxes, health regulations and artificial technical restrictions...
...also trying to acquire a domestic carrier to compete against TWA, which has both U.S. and international routes. Next year, Pan Am will become the first airline to put Boeing 747 jets into service, and the company counts on the 362-passenger jumbos to regain its financial health. To help fill all those seats, Pan Am can obviously use some of Halaby's zeal...
...Blaine article, which appeared in the Herald Traveler, said that "adolescent rebellion" was characterized by "self-destructive behavior." John D. Hanify '71, president of HUC, said that articles such as Blaine's might discourage students from seeking psychiatric counsel at the Health Services...