Word: orphaned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Henry Kissinger's triumphs have had one father. His one unmitigated debacle is an orphan. It was the Cyprus crisis of 1974, a chain of coup, invasion, countercoup and embargo that left the southern flank of NATO in chaos and U.S. prestige in the Eastern Mediterranean at an ebb. Laurence Stern, a veteran reporter on national security for the Washington Post, has written a compact and compelling account of the affair. He traces U.S. policy from the Truman Doctrine of 1947 to Clark Clifford's inconclusive mediation mission earlier this year, but he concentrates on the American missteps...
...shape and size, and has the latest scientific gadgetry. Yet there is something special about this particular lab at New York's Rockefeller University. For the past decade, its doctors, chemists and biologists have been engaged, largely unheralded, in an unusual task. They are fighting what they call "orphan diseases," a group of widely differing illnesses that have one thing in common: no one has done very much to develop drugs for them...
...fill this gap that Biochemist Anthony Cerami created the orphan-diseases lab. Unlike the drug companies, the scientists could not afford to screen thousands of compounds in hopes of finding one that might work. Instead, they concentrated on combining what was already known about a disease with their own ingenuity...
...year, who in the past five years has somehow managed to give away more than $33,000 of his own money. Most of it has gone, in $1,000 checks, to strangers whose misfortunes or good deeds he has read about. Some of his beneficiaries: a Colombian orphan who needed heart surgery; a couple who have been foster parents to 40 children; a civic-minded, wealthy businessman who quickly returned the gift. Why does he do it? Cannon believes that "the quest for money and acquisitions can be very self-destructive." So he and his wife Princetta give away...
...snowbound citizens of Lower Slobbovia, home of Lena the Hyena, world's ugliest woman. Moonbeam McSwine wallowed happily in the mud and tried unsuccessfully to ensnare Abner with her buxom charms. As Capp once said of his curvaceous creations: "Anyone who likes small bosoms -let 'em read Orphan Annie...