Word: polio
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DIED. William H. Stein, 68, American biochemist who shared a 1972 Nobel Prize with a Rockefeller University colleague, Stanford Moore, for unraveling the chemical composition of ribonuclease, an enzyme that, with 124 amino acid components, was twice as complex as any previously analyzed protein; of polyneuritis, a polio-like disease that had crippled him since 1969; in New York City...
Douglas' fierce individuality and his support of the little man grew out of a boyhood of poverty in Yakima, Wash. To help support his family, he labored as a field hand alongside migrant workers; he climbed mountains to rebuild legs weakened by polio. It was on these hikes that Douglas developed a love for the wilderness that he would later celebrate with dozens of books on travel and wildlife. Throughout his career, he would flee the U.S. capital to return to the Western mountains or explore remote areas of the world from the high Himalayas to the Dead...