Word: pica
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...Micro-mini is scientifically acceptable according to the International Committee on Weights and Measures but micro-micro since 1963 has been replaced by pica (pronounced peek-o). GEORGE COATS Physicist U.S. Public Health Service Winchester, Mass...
When the phoca has the pica...
Even children with the unnatural appetite known as "pica," who eat just about anything they can get their hands on (TIME, Oct. 12), do not chew enough lead to make them ill immediately. In most children it simply accumulates in their bones. But summer sunshine on their skins sets off biochemical changes in their systems-for one thing, it boosts their supply of vitamin D. Summer is also a time of growth spurts, when the development of new bone calls for a fast turnover of calcium-and lead rides alongside the calcium into the bloodstream, to attack the nervous system...
...despite the fact that Cleveland's unions were anxious to settle, Cleveland's 14-week-old strike also seemed endless. But neither city has anything on Portland, Ore. There, an almost forgotten dispute has dragged on since November 1959, and is not one pica closer to settlement than it was when it began. But unlike New York or Cleveland, Portland has not been without its newspapers for one strikebound day. It is, in fact, the only U.S. city that ever went into a strike with two dailies-the Oregonian and the Oregon Journal-and wound up with three...
...Children's Hospital, every preschool child is now checked for pica, and every child with pica is checked for lead poisoning. Psychiatric social workers try to cleanse the poisonous emotional atmosphere in a pica child's home; once that is done, it is relatively easy to cure the child of pica. But if the trouble persists beyond age six, the child usually develops some other form of deviant behavior. Now the Washington researchers are checking to see whether, as they suspect, a pica child becomes easy prey to other addictions later in life, such as compulsive eating, alcoholism...