Word: labs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...embarked on a great voyage of discovery. In dozens of lab oratories in cities round the world, psychologists, biologists, physicists and chemists, recognizing that what goes on inside the brain cannot be divorced from what goes on outside, in increasing numbers are poking, prodding and analyzing the organ in an attempt to unlock its secrets. Man has split the atom, cracked the genetic code and, in a Promethean step unimaginable less than a quarter-century ago, leaped from his own terrestrial home to the moon. But he has yet to solve the mysteries of memory, learning and consciousness or managed...
...professor of surgery at Georgetown University Hospital. Admitted to the hospital for a biopsy and other tests on a Friday morning, Teddy was examined, released for the weekend, and sent back to school the following Monday. But by Tuesday the results of the tests had come back from the lab; the youngster had chondrosarcoma, a fast-growing cancer of the cartilage. The recommended treatment: prompt amputation to prevent the disease from spreading...
...Panthers had tried to shoot their way out. Hanrahan had his men act out their story on TV. He gave the sympathetic Chicago Tribune "exclusive information" consisting mostly of lies and ambiguous photographs. (One of the photographs showed "bullet holes" which turned out to be protruding nails.) Crime lab technicians faked lab reports. Other evidence was destroyed or misrepresented...
...week by Sweden's Royal Academy of Sciences. It awarded the 1973 Nobel prizes in physics and chemistry, worth $120,000 apiece, to five scientists whose achievements not only have had a major impact on their fields of study but also are already producing practical fallout beyond the lab...
...Robert Merriwether, a Harvard professor, 42, still fit from sculling on the Charles-and lonely from puttering in the lab-makes the familiar, by now ritualistic slip. While wife and children splash off the coast of Maine, he has an affair with a Radcliffe summer student, a girl young enough, as the saying goes, to be his daughter...