Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...career picked me out," said Dr. Mary S. Calderone, a noted physician who founded the Sex Education and Information Council of the United States...
...official government version. Amadeo Seno, the commission's deputy counsel, told newsmen last week that he had found a number of contradictions in Olivas' testimony. Four hours after Aquino was killed, Seno noted, Olivas had described the assassin as being 5 ft. 6 in. tall. But the physician who performed the autopsy later reported that Galman was 5 ft. 9 in., or ¼ in. taller than Aquino. Galman's height is a crucial clue in determining whether he was tall enough to walk behind Aquino, as the government claims, and fire into his head a bullet that...
Peanuts. Or so says a desperate, despairing physician in The Day After. Even Hiroshima was peanuts compared with the irrevocable thermonuclear slaughter visited on Kansas City and its environs. Lawrence. Sedalia. Green Ridge. They have all been devastated. But this is not some horrible, local nuclear accident. This is worldwide atomic warfare. The missiles have been launched, the bombs have gone off. The global village has been nuked...
...bestselling essays in The Lives of a Cell and The Medusa and the Snail moved nimbly from the microscopic to the transcendental. Nucleoli revealed worlds of meaning; peptides hid oceans of being. Charmed by Thomas' low-key lyricism, the judges of the National Book Award granted the physician-researcher its prize for arts and letters in 1975. Somehow the doctor had put his pulse on the thumb of the nation...
...skyscraper or the wall of a conservatory. It neatly frames an all but impeccable The Doctor's Dilemma, Shaw's affectionate satire of medical theories, artistic pretensions and the absurd complexities brought on by love. The plot, a wittily constructed but logically dubious foofaraw, about a physician who must decide whether to save the life of a mediocre yet decent colleague or that of a gifted yet wicked artist, is taken just seriously enough to display the talents of the cast. Even the smallest performances are persuasive, and one is exceptional: as the artist's devoted wife...