Word: inborn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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James McNaughton Hester, 37, could almost star in a play titled How to Succeed in Education Without Really Trying. He is not a practicing scholar, never taught a class, and has been a college administrator for only four years. But he has so much inborn ability that people keep pressing him to take better jobs. Last week he became the youngest president in the 130-year history of 43,000-student New York University, biggest private university complex in the U.S. Not until he got the job was Hester even sure that he wanted to stay in education...
...vast majority of inborn defects are now recognized as due to something that goes wrong in the environment of the fetus - in the womb. In most cases, the underlying cause is unknown. In a few cases, the direct cause is now clear, thanks to an Australian ophthalmologist...
...field of transplants, the great target is the heart. Some victims of atherosclerotic coronary disease (the leading killer in the U.S. today) might be saved if they could receive a transplant of a healthy heart from, say, a traffic accident victim. Infants with certain inborn heart defects would have a chance of survival...
MONGOLISM. Now that the number of chromosomes in human cells is established at 46, correcting a long-held error, variations from the normal are showing up in more and more inborn defects. Dr. Malcolm A. Ferguson-Smith of Johns Hopkins reported that in Mongolism, where an extra chromosome has been found, the anomaly appears to be the result of a failure in subdivision, traceable to the maternal egg. In a wide range of sex abnormalities related to hermaphroditism. the number of chromosomes may range from 45 to 48. Among the anomalies, "super females" with three X (female) chromosomes...