Word: humanics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Such bizarre beasts-human beings usually hopped up with hashish and kept in captivity by local experts in black magic -are no strangers to the orderly process of British justice in Africa. In much of Africa the trained, crazed killers masquerade as leopards, perform their dark deeds in leopard fashion by pouncing on the backs of unsuspecting victims from the low-hanging branches of forest trees, slashing their backs and necks with razor-sharp knives fitted to their fingers like claws. In Tanganyika, however, lions are man's most prevalent enemy. There the fashion trend is toward lion skins...
...woman had a grudge against her son because he had thrown her second husband's bow and arrows out of his hut (a grave insult). With the support of her sister, she sent a messenger to hire a lionman from a.sorcerer in the next village. "It was a human being," the messenger told the court, "and it was a woman. It walked like a dog and it sat like a dog. Its head was like a human, but it was covered with a lion skin. I was not afraid of it because Muhandi, the sorcerer, told me that...
Ghee & Porridge. For several weeks, the vengeful women kept the human lion in their house, feeding it on ghee and porridge, and laying their plans. Then they sent it after the son's favorite niece. The child's mother watched in horror as the thing ran off with her baby in its mouth. All that was found of the child later was a few pieces of skull, her toes, kidneys and some scraps of cloth. The Tanganyika court found both women and Lion Trainer Muhandi guilty of murder. The sorcerer appealed on the ground that...
With the same energy, Bovet threw himself into work on a new problem. "I was fascinated," he says, "by the fact that in nature, in the human body, no product existed to counteract the excessive effects of histamine." These effects are allergic reactions such as hay fever and hives. From 1937 to 1941 Bovet did 3,000 experiments, worked out the chemical formulas on which are based most of the infinite variety of antihistamines now widely prescribed...
...called Bohr "a scientist and a great human being who exemplifies principles the world sorely needs-the spirit of friendly scientific inquiry, and the peaceful use of the atom for the satisfaction of human needs." Replied Bohr: "The rapid advance of science and technology in our age, which involves such bright promises and grave dangers, presents civilization with a most serious challenge. To meet this challenge . . . the road is indicated by that worldwide cooperation which has manifested itself through the ages in the development of science...