Word: madison
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...West Side, but it is only one facet of the resurgence of college basketball in New York City. New York has long been recognized as the cradle for collegiate basketball, but until this year New Yorkers seldom saw the products of their playgrounds as more than overnight visitors at Madison Square Garden...
That slogan would not fly on Madison Avenue, but it is proving persuasive enough in Pepsi-Cola's newest market: the Soviet Union. Since 1974, when cases of Pepsi began rolling out of a new plant in the Black Sea port city of Novorossisk, sales have grown to 50 million bottles in 1976 and may climb another 20% this year. Pepsi's venture has set a pattern for future deals in the just stirring market for Western consumer goods in Russia...
...presents a cogent case against local control of school systems. The right to a decent education is simply too important to be subject to the caprices of community conservatism and ignorance. Do these parents want to turn their young people into carbon copies of themselves? Gene Wright Madison...
...that might have been asked by a doctor during a routine physical checkup. But they were not; they came from a computer. In the past few months, some 500 people have been "examined" by an electronic brain at the University of Wisconsin's Center for Health Sciences in Madison. The computer does not diagnose ailments or prescribe pills, but it comes close. After analyzing the patients' answers, and confessing a few limitations of its own ("Pardon me a few minutes while I compute"), it calculates their chances for good health and long life. It also tells...
This no-nonsense "doctor" is the brainchild of Dr. Norman Jensen, director of adult medicine at Madison's University of Wisconsin Hospitals, and his colleague, Larry Van Cura, a computer specialist. What distinguishes it from other diagnostic computers is that it allows a direct dialogue between patient and machine and, math whiz that it is, delivers an almost instant assessment of health risks. Jensen also sees the inexpensive computerized checkup ($10) as an alternative to costly annual physicals. For those under 40 who show no signs of ill health, an increasing number of physicians are no longer recommending such...