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...British Historian C. Northcote Parkinson puckishly formulated the basic law of bureaucracy that bears his name: work expands to fit the time at hand for doing it. Parkinson himself regarded his "law" as satire; inevitably, several American psychologists have decided to take it seriously. What is more, they have not only proved, at least to their own satisfaction, that the theory is true, but have extended...
...would also revamp the familiar telephone dial. "A man with Parkinson's disease or a man with fat fingers has great difficulty dialing," he says. "Why have holes...
...upstairs. Because it appears to be yet another promotion for merit, percussive sublimation has the added benefit of justifying the executive who promoted the man to his level of incompetence in the first place. Both this principle and the lateral arabesque point up an inadequacy in C. Northcote Parkinson's well-known law. Work not only expands to fit the time allotted but, says Author Peter, "it can expand far beyond that...
Each year since the 1930s, an estimated 35,000 Americans have fallen victim to Parkinson's disease, or "shaking palsy." Each year, scores of the Chamorros of Guam develop some of the symptoms of Parkinson's, along with a form of muscle degeneration best known in the U.S. as "Lou Gehrig's disease." Just as regularly, hundreds of sheep in a score of different countries begin rubbing their backs against barbed wire, ruining their wool and revealing themselves as victims of scrapie. On North American fur farms, mink of many colors get sick with a sort...
...opposite kind of age phenomenon occurs in Parkinson's disease, or Parkinsonism. At Massachusetts General Hospital, Neurologists David C. Poskanzer and Robert Schwab found records of only 22 cases in 42 years before 1917; since then, there have been more than 1,800 cases. Virtually all recent victims were born within ten years of 1897, and their age at the time their disease developed has been going up steadily-from an average of 34 in 1920 to at least 61 now. The Poskanzer-Schwab explanation: most recent Parkinsonism victims were infected during a 1915-26 epidemic of encephalitis lethargica...