Word: humanics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...private capital which you represent are the motors of economic progress. The economic growth which you generate is vital to the future of the whole free world. In many nations, the pattern of economic development is being shaped for a century ahead. If this pattern is statist, then human freedom will be the loser...
...billion population has almost doubled in the past 70 years, is expected to redouble every 42 years hereafter, and is rapidly approaching the level (top estimate: 7 billion) beyond which scientists believe the earth can no longer sustain all its inhabitants. "It is hard to avoid the conclusion that human multiplication has gotten out of hand," said Sociologist Davis, "that this unanticipated situation cannot continue...
...profound economic and political significance of this runaway human inflation is that the two-thirds of mankind who live in the world's underdeveloped countries are now multiplying twice as fast as in industrialized societies. To support the extra population these countries are least able to afford, they are forced to consume less and produce more, and are falling ever lower in living standards. Said Dr. A. Eugene Staley, Stanford Research Institute's senior international economist: "Despite all the vaunted technological and economic progress of modern times, there are probably more poverty-stricken people in the world today...
Many a surgeon dreams of the day when, like the mechanic faced with a worn-out fuel pump, he will be able to dip into a bank of human spare parts and fix up his patient with a replacement for.an ailing organ−even one so vital to life as a kidney or the heart itself. So far, apart from the difficulty of obtaining such spare organs, two obstacles have seemed insuperable: 1) the surgical difficulties of making all the necessary blood-vessel connections in time, and 2) the immune reaction which causes a recipient to manufacture antibodies that destroy...
...method is ever to be tried on a human heart-disease victim, where would the spare heart come from? Perhaps, suggest the doctors, from an accident victim. By keeping heart-lung systems chilled for eight hours and getting them to work again, the surgeons have now shown that there would be more than enough time for such a surgical swap. Indeed, as optimistic Surgeon Webb sees it the one major problem remaining is the immune reaction...