Word: owen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...theory behind the Jupiter effect should not be taken seriously said Owen J. Gingerich, who teaches Science A-17. "The Astronomical Perspective," with David W. Latham. "I think there will be another tomorrow and tomorrow and so on," he said. "The nuclear effect is much more worrisome than the Jupiter effect," he added...
...Harvard community as a whole. The proposed alteration was not a minor technical matter but the effective abrogation of the University's South African policy. Second, the Citibank loan was not solicited by South African Blacks. The Wall Street Journal of Sept. 26. 1980 quotes South African Finance Minister Owen Horwood, who was exultant over the case with which his government obtained a major loan designed to test its "creditworthiness" on the international money market. On Oct. 1. 1980, the Financial Guardian also discounted the South African government's altruistic pretensions in soliciting the loan, and pointed to a long...
...Owen Thomas appeared dead on arrival at the New York Infirmary last December. His heart, liver, intestines and a lung had been slashed in a knife fight. The 20-year-old fish-market laborer had no pulse, no blood pressure and no breath left in a body that was already "very cold to touch," according to Dr. Daryl Isaacs, who was in charge of the emergency room. Yet five minutes later, Thomas' heartbeat was restored, a recovery that Isaacs described as "the most wondrous thing we've ever experienced...
...Owen Thomas had lived through what is sometimes called a near death experience (NDE), a vivid, memorable sense of sights, sounds and events that occur while an individual is clinically dead or very close to the point of no return. Discussion of this phenomenon and other aspects of dying achieved an almost faddish popularity in the early and mid-1970s, following the publication of two bestsellers: On Death and Dying, a study of terminally ill patients, by Psychiatrist Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, and Life After Life, by Psychiatrist Raymond Moody...
...what he calls purely "autoscopic" experiences, in which they remember floating at ceiling height above the operating table (or battlefield) and looking down on their own lifeless bodies. About half had "transcendental" experiences, in which they recall traveling through a dark tunnel toward a bright light. Some, like Owen Thomas, encountered other figures or entered unearthly landscapes like those painted by Hieronymus Bosch. Several patients reported both autoscopic and transcendental elements...