Word: method
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...half his professional life in the Selective Service and has come to view it as a separate social system that must independently punish its own miscreants. This view--and not dim-wittedness--made him insist that there was nothing wrong with his directive, that it merely presented an alternative method of handling "illegal" protestors. The newspapers railed him for his "inability to understand the larger issue...
...pint of whisky, with soda, on two successive days, and eight weeks later had a normal healthy boy. Dr. Fuchs then refined the method, so that he now takes doubly sterile (spore-free as well as germfree) alcohol and makes a solution about as strong as a tall highball. Instead of giving patients a swig, he drips it into their veins. Among 100 patients so far treated this way at New York Hospital, and at least 200 more at White Medical Center in Los Angeles, the alcohol cut short the contractions in about 70% and delayed birth for as long...
What Norman found is that Factor VIII is produced by the spleen. In the past the treatment for hemophilia has been the injection of Factor VIII into the hemophiliac. Te new method is to replace the defective spleen of the hemophiliac with a healthy...
...method has many advantages over the old one. Most important, the hemophiliac tends to produce antibodies which counteract the vital Factor VIII when it is injected. With the new techniques of organ transplant that have recently been developed, it is possible to establish a permanent source of Factor VIII inside the hemophiliac--by inserting an entirely new spleen...
Leahy said in an interview last fall that he saw two main arguments against effort-reporting: the pettiness of the method of accounting to the government, and the arbitrary process of deciding who must file reports. (Scientists holding contracts--as opposed to grants--from the government need not file reports...