Word: normale
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Crisis intervention is not a panacea for mental illness. It does not benefit the patient whose emotional problems, however upsetting, are not overwhelming -the so-called normal neurotic who either applies for long-term therapy, if he can afford it, or else manages to live with his problems. Many therapists flatly reject it-and so do some patients. Says Detroit's Danto: "Often you have to talk your way in. They don't see you as the Ajax knight coming in to zap them clean...
...babies born in the U.S. last week, the great majority will grow into normal, healthy children. But 1,600 or so will die before their first birthday-an annual total of 80,000. Anxious to reduce that toll, the Federal Government's National Institute of Child Health and Human Development chose last week-when baby-food manufacturers were celebrating National Baby Week-to stage an Atlantic City seminar with the somber title "Why Babies...
These dangers must be set against the greater hazards of pregnancy. For three weeks after a normal pregnancy and delivery, the risks of thromboembolism (including pulmonary embolism) are greatly increased, and even during pregnancy may be slightly increased. Northwestern University's Dr. David Danforth calculated for the College of Physicians that there are .55 cases of thromboembolism per 1,000 women a year among Pill takers compared with .74 per 1,000 during pregnancy and three to ten cases per 1,000 after delivery. Clotting problems aside, pregnancy carries other risks, including fatal complications associated with high blood pressure...
...military service and thus possibly saved his life. The resulting mixture of guilt and gratitude marked Toynbee deeply. "I have always felt it strange to be alive myself," he writes, "and the longer I have gone on living since then, the stranger this has come to feel. Death seems normal to me; survival seems odd." The thought recurs in Experiences like the tolling of a bell...
...girls accepted here have come, while this year, the figure will probably be somewhere between 75 and 80 per cent. The decline represents about 30 girls. The Harvard yield (the number of students who accept) will probably be no more than one per cent away from the normal 85 per cent...