Word: parkinsonism
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...first. Because the costumes are glistening white and the women wear chignons, the classical echoes are clear when the scene shifts to the street. Moulton, on the other hand, establishes himself on the corner right away. Thunder/Purple Rain is a variant on the familiar sex-and-salvation theme. Elizabeth Parkinson plays a sort of fairy who transforms bystanders into lovers with a wand crowned, rather like a car's hood ornament, by a heart. Unfortunately, Moulton makes the song Purple Rain into a dismal solo that looks arduous to dance and provides little enlightenment, emotional or otherwise...
...Louis Zetzel '29, a private practice internist and former long-time faculty member of Harvard Medical School, died last Monday, Sept. 13, in the Newton and Wellesley Alzheimer Center from Parkinson's disease...
...PARKINSONISM The tendency of government bureaucracies to grow inexorably larger led C. Northcote Parkinson to formulate his famous law: "Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion." In the U.S. this tendency takes the form of an amoeba-like multiplication of departments and agencies. Is a department or agency obsolete (some are still operating under directives signed by President Theodore Roosevelt)? Create a new one to do some of the same jobs. Does a new problem arise? Set up another new agency. Says Robert Stone, the project director for Gore: "As a rule, virtually any task...
...cell-growth chemical has been shown to preserve the brain cells lost to Parkinson's disease -- in rats. If it works in humans, it could lead to a new treatment...
...responsible for mopping up dangerous free radicals, in this case negatively charged oxygen molecules called "superoxides," which if left unchecked may lead to cell death. A similar mechanism, involving a different set of free radicals, has been implicated in Parkinson's disease...