Word: parkinsonism
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...dead? He is believed to have an advanced case of Parkinson's disease, and was last seen in public on Aug. 7. But Mao's death had been falsely reported so many times in the past that China watchers were understandably leary of once again speculating about his health. Besides, the Peking Foreign Ministry publicly insisted that the Chairman is "alive and well," and Mao's wife, Chiang Ching, had been seen smiling and apparently unperturbed at a banquet a week after the crisis began...
...have no lack of chores for a machine with the capabilities of the Bevatron. Biophysicists, for example, are optimistic about using heavy ions, or other particles that can be made from these ions, to combat cancer, acromegaly (a rare disease in which facial features, hands and feet thicken) and Parkinson's disease. Unlike X rays and gamma rays, heavy particles do not damage healthy tissue on their way to a tumor; they do most of their deadly work only after reaching it. (Before the modification of the Bevatron, heavy ions could not be accelerated enough even to penetrate...
...South African miner's face more than a mile underground to the look of New York from a precarious perch atop a gargoyle on the Chrysler Building, 800 ft. above the street. By the time she died last week at 67, after an agonizing 19-year battle with Parkinson's disease, Bourke-White had long been recognized as one of the world's great photographers...
...Author C. Northcote Parkinson [June 14] should be flogged around the fleet for suggesting that Hornblower was responsible for the timely death of H.M.S. Renown's dread Captain Sawyer. Any Hornblower student worth his salt pork knows that the most likely author of Sawyer's assist down the hatchway was Henry Wellard. Wellard is known to have suffered repeatedly under Sawyer's sadistic paranoia, and was described as "highly agitated" on the night of the incident. The testimony of the Marine corporal, Greenwood, places Wellard with Hornblower near the hatchway, and both Marine Captain Whiting and Lieut...
...Parkinson's first law about the proliferation of paper-shufflers, in fact, was born when he discovered that while the number of British Navy vessels dwindled from 62 to 20 between 1914 and 1928, the number of shore-bound Admiralty officials nearly doubled during the same period. *Naval scholars may remember that Sawyer, a sadist who mistreated his crew, mysteriously fell into a hatch, doing himself permanent injury, and soon thereafter was killed by a mob of Spanish prisoners who temporarily took over the Renown. It now appears that Hornblower both pushed Sawyer down the hatch and later...