Word: healthly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...obscure corner of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), molecular biologist Norton Zinder strode to a 30-ft.-long oval conference table, sat down and rapped his gavel for order. A hush settled over the Human Genome Advisory Committee, an unlikely assemblage of computer experts, biologists, ethicists, industry scientists and engineers. "Today we begin," chairman Zinder declared. "We are initiating an unending study of human biology. Whatever it's going to be, it will be an adventure, a priceless endeavor. And when it's done, someone else will sit down and say, 'It's time to begin...
...achievement of that goal would launch a new era in medicine. James Wyngaarden, director of the NIH, which will oversee the project, predicts that it will make "major contributions to understanding growth, development and human health, and open new avenues for therapy." Full translation of the genetic message would enable medical researchers to identify the causes of thousands of still mysterious inherited disorders, both physical and behavioral...
...Paul Volcker, former chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, warned against looking for a "magic elixir" to solve the crisis. In a speech before a conference on Third World debt in Washington, Volcker explained, "If not well managed, a process of debt reduction clearly could be hazardous to the health of debtors and creditors alike...
Cheney's principal drawback is his health. He had his first heart attack during his initial congressional campaign, and two more followed before he underwent bypass surgery last August. Cheney -- who said last week that he got his cardiologist's O.K. to take the Pentagon job -- generally shrugs off questions about his condition. "Some people are short, fat and ugly," he told the Casper (Wyo.) Star Tribune last year. "I happen to have coronary- artery disease...
...drink and have higher medical costs, you don't pay higher insurance premiums," said Willard G. Manning, a professor of public health and economics at the University of Michigan who also worked on the study...