Word: humanics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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CLAIM: a second antibiotic may delay the emergence of bacteria which are resistant to the first antibiotic. ANSWER: this may be true in-test tubes, but generally there is no proof that it works in human patients...
...mound to the plate, Gil noted with surprise that Cleveland Southpaw Herb Score had failed to lean into his usual fluid follow-through. A fat pitch floated up, just knee-high. McDougald lashed it back, a string-straight drive that ended in the sickening sound of a baseball meeting human bone. Pitcher Score crumpled. Blood burst from his nose and mouth...
...Congo. Slavery and servitude were the African's way of life, and in the first west coast trading posts established at the malarial edge of jungles as dark and green and impenetrable as the ocean bottom, native chieftains were only too glad to exchange the surplus humanity of their fiefs for the trinkets and calicoes of the newcomers. The human life that the Europeans bought on Africa's west coast, and sold mostly in the slave markets of America, was the same commodity that centuries before had attracted Moorish raiders from the north and Arabs from the east...
Village & Bush. Africa's riches, such as they were, flowed down effortlessly to the traders on the coast. But the fact that, beyond a trickle of gold and ivory, the marauding chieftains of the interior had only human bodies to offer in trade was evidence of the real poverty of the people within-an ill-fed, disease-and fear-ridden race. To the African tribesman, whatever his ancestry or point of origin, the realities of life were pretty much the same all over the land. They consisted primarily of the village and the bush-the clearing in the forest...
...took a new breed of adventurer-explorer to bring the world to Middle Africa and to unfold its wonders for the world -men prompted not by simple greed but by human compassion and scientific curiosity, drawn onward by the land itself. There was the discoverer of Victoria Falls, David Livingstone, the gentle Scottish medical missionary who went to Africa because an opium war in China kept him from achieving his ambition to go there. There was Henry Stanley, a British-born U.S. reporter, who went to Africa in search of a feature story for James Gordon Bennett...