Word: horowitz
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sprung into being: behavioral medicine, to battle stress-related illness; psychoneuroimmunology, to explore the way emotional states affect the body's defenses. Major corporations have established elaborate stress-management programs to help harried executives cope. And around the country, but especially in mellow-minded California, says Psychiatrist Mardi Horowitz of the University of California at San Francisco, "everyone is massaging, jogging and hot-tubbing to reduce this cumulative stress...
...considered by his doctors to have been crucial to his remarkable endurance after receiving the artificial heart. Lonely heart attack patients have been shown to live longer when given a pet. Herpes sufferers seem to be helped just by participating in a self-help group. Says U.C.S.F. Psychiatrist Horowitz: "These self-help groups, for everything from single parents to rape victims, are very useful. They replace the smalltown systems that we've lost...
...Aptitude Tests (SATs) plummeted by 45% in verbal skills and 23% in math, although the number of those taking the exams dropped by only 3%. In a time of limited resources, many institutions believe that future success depends upon attracting not just ordinary students but the finest. Admits Helen Horowitz, a public relations official at New York University, which is handing out 55 new merit scholarships of $2,000 this year: "Part of the aim is that talented students will help make N.Y.U. attractive to others in the years to come...
...something of a milestone. It marked the beginning of the most sophisticated search yet for evidence of intelligent life in the vast realms of space beyond the earth. Under a pledge of $120,000 from the Planetary Society, an organization of space advocates begun by Astronomer Carl Sagan (Cosmos), Horowitz and his colleagues will be scanning the heavens for the next four years. They hope to pick up some orderly signal, besides the chaotic noise of the stars, that would indicate that E.T. (for extraterrestrial) is not just a Hollywood fantasy...
...evidence that life of any kind exists on far-off worlds. But the search efforts so far have admittedly been slapdash, concentrating on only small parts of the sky and tuning in to just a few of the vast range of radio frequencies that might be used for transmissions. Horowitz, who caught the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) bug after Cornell's Sagan lectured on the subject at Harvard, decided to improve the odds. He developed a compact multichannel receiver that can be hooked to a large antenna and can listen to 131,072 closely spaced channels simultaneously...