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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Juan Bautista the 125-year-old home of restaurant consultant Becky McGovern is situated only 100 ft. from the San Andreas fault. Although it bounced "from one side to the other," the house did not fall down. At Mariposa House Restaurant in the same town, owner Barbara Kuhl said her building "did the Shimmy, Shimmy Ko-Ko Bop, but we didn't lose a thing." Her porch, however, had "gone out to meet two little old ladies" arriving for dinner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Earthquake | 10/30/1989 | See Source »

...group of month-old babies and pacifiers with bumps on them to another group. He then had the babies look at models of the two kinds of nipples. The result, says Meltzoff, was that "they would look at the ones they had felt." Now, with Speech Professor Patricia Kuhl, he has extended those tests to language. The researchers showed infants two films of faces saying "ahh" and "eee," then placed between the two pictures a loudspeaker that could make either sound. The babies invariably looked toward the picture that fit the sound. "This means that babies can detect the relationship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Do Babies Know? | 8/15/1983 | See Source »

...better diagnostic procedures, it might be possible to block the progress of AD chemotherapeutically in the next five years." says Gibbs of NIH One promising method is a new scanning process called PET (positron emission tomography), which measures glucose metabolism in living cells. PET-scan studies by Dr. David Kuhl of U.C.L.A., among others, have revealed drastic decreases in metabolism in the brains of AD patients. Kuhl hopes to develop an early diagnostic test so that AD patients can "receive treatment while their brains are still healthy and not mush...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Slow, Steady and Heartbreaking | 7/11/1983 | See Source »

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