Word: normale
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this work is necessary, says McKusick, because to treat or prevent dwarfism it first must be clearly defined. That is not as easy as it sounds. Beyond the rough classification of midgets as people of short but otherwise normal body build, and dwarfs as having some other physical abnormality in addition to short stature, McKusick lists 20 different conditions as causes of subnormal growth. Among the conventioneers, he found at least one representative of almost all the types, and some who appeared to fit no known category, suggesting that the classification table will now have to be extended...
Concession to Bigness. The likeliest candidates for this help are children with otherwise normal physiques whose pituitary glands do not produce enough of the hormone. Even for them the supply problem is forbidding. Growth hormone from animals is useless for man unless it is specially processed, and little of this is now produced. Human growth hormone must be extracted, in minute quantities, from the pituitaries of cadavers. Each year the National Pituitary Agency in Baltimore gets about 75,000 of these glands, mostly from pathologists exploring the skull in postmortem examinations. The agency supplies the Hopkins with extracts from...
Even under normal circumstances, French TV is hardly much livelier than the test pattern. Save for an occasional penetrating documentary or a good movie, programming is a dusty grind of westerns, inane quiz shows, and U.S. imports, such as Les Incorruptibles (The Untouchables) and Mission: Impossible...
...Normally such case-hardened kids would probably be slapped in a juvenile reform school. Instead, these were committed by Minneapolis judges to an imaginative program conceived ten years ago by Paul Keve, then director of court services for the Minneapolis area, now Minnesota's commissioner of corrections. Keve's basic concept was that a person cannot be taught to live in society if he is removed from normal social situations. So Keve devised a program for a small group of young offenders who stay at home and in school on weekdays, and on Friday afternoons are delivered...
...towards urban problems. McCarthy bickered for weeks with many of his backers, over whether to state that domestic turmoil was, in terms of national priority, more important than foreign policy. What this actually means for a prospective McCarthy Presidency is unclear. For McCarthy will have to carry on the normal tricky business of diplomacy with allies and enemies alike. Anyway, a statement merely setting a vague priority is meaningless. If, instated McCarthy is thinking of reappraising the value of our alliances or military aid programs, that is something else--a genuine occasion for a full-blown national debate...