Word: humanation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ages, says Author Sayers. The "childishly literal" conception of Heaven and Hell as places in space and extensions in time began "to creep out of popular mythology into the minds of educated people" after the Reformation and Renaissance. Heaven means meeting the Reality which is God, and for this, human souls need special training to free the will and judgment from error and perversion. If the training is not completed in life, it must be finished after death; "that is why any attempt to hold the spirits 'earthbound'-by 'calling them up' at seances, or even...
...joint in injured dogs. One of the judges who passed on Colonel Gorman's work was Orthopedic Surgeon Judson Wilson. The artificial joint looked so good and worked so well in dogs that Dr. Wilson decided to try minor design changes that would make it suitable for human patients...
...Wilson will perform two more such operations, then wait six months to observe results before recommending wide adoption of the Gorman joint. But he has high hopes for it. Moving parts are metal against metal, lubricated by body fluids, so no foreign material is in moving contact with human tissue (which has caused trouble in some earlier plastic and metal restorations). Made of Stellite (a chromium-cobalt alloy), the joint should outlast the life of the recipient, with no corrosion...
...birthday conference, Vaccinventor Jonas E. Salk had fun with what he admitted was a flight of fancy: that the kind of vaccine he developed against polio might some day be used against other diseases, including ulcers. Many viruses, Salk noted, can lie dormant for years in the human body (a common example is the virus of the cold sore). Some may attack the nerves and do only slight initial damage. In later life these neglected infections may have serious aftereffects. For instance, said Salk, severe hypertension and gastric or duodenal ulcers can occur as a result of damage...
...whole thing boils down to human rights." (Government...