Word: parkinson
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Jean Dupuy's Poe-like Heart Beats Dust. The stethoscope is wired to a sensitive diaphragm inside a clear plastic case, and every time the viewer's heart thumps, a tiny telltale mushroom cloud of ruby-red dust boils up under a spooky cone of light. Robin Parkinson's sonically activated Toy-Pet-Plexi-Ball is a sparkling basketball-sized plastic sphere that rolls kittenishly away every time the viewer claps his hands together. Ingeniously combining a blower and a vibrator, Engineer Niels O. Young flings an 80-ft.-long loop of tape soaring out into graceful...
...campaign corollary to Parkinson's Law might be: Words directed at the electorate multiply in direct proportion to the time and space available on TV and radio and in magazines and newspapers. By any reckoning, the 1968 campaign sets an alltime record for verbiage. Small wonder that with so much talk flooding the ether, the words sometimes get mixed up and Candidate A sounds like his opponent Candidate B, and Candidate C sounds like both. As proof of the theorem, here is a simple test: Match the candidates and their words...
...professor of history with a wry wit promulgated his theory of the work-time syndrome: "Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion." That shrewd and accurate observation became known as Parkinson's Law, after its founder, C. Northcote Parkinson, 59. Now comes "Mrs. Parkinson's Law," aimed at the harried housewife who hopes to keep both her sanity and her spouse: "Heat produced by pressure expands to fill the mind available, from which it can pass only to a cooler mind," goes the latest Parkinson principle. What all that bafflegab means, says Parkinson...
...test ing L-dopa, which can be used only by research physicians, since it has not been approved by the Food and Drug Administration for general prescription. Results at Manhattan's Neurological Institute over a six-month period and at Miami's National Parkinson Institute are similar to Dr. Cotzias'. The National Institutes of Health and the Parkinson's Disease Foundation are work ing to increase the number of centers that will be approved for L-dopa trials...
Cotzias has his eye on a more remote and desirable goal than the treatment of a single disease, even such a common crippler as Parkinson's. He holds with Chemist Linus Pauling (TIME, May 3) that biochemical deficiencies in the brain may masquerade as brain-tissue degeneration. The deficiencies may result from underlying damage to neurons (the electric regulators of the nervous system) or other causes, but either way they produce "electronic breaks," so that nerve impulses do not get through. Dr. Cotzias wants to find more ways of repairing more kinds of electronic breaks...