Word: polio
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Often it was hard to pick one person to credit for a particular advance. Some cases involved famous rivalries, such as Farnsworth vs. Vladimir Zworykin over inventing television, or Jonas Salk vs. Albert Sabin over developing a polio vaccine. Other cases, such as the creation of the atom bomb or the computer, involved a series of contributions. Although there is a danger in personalizing history, there is also an advantage. By choosing the people we feel were most responsible for key breakthroughs, and then exploring their relations and rivalries, we hope to convey the human excitement that makes real...
...look at the pictures again, and you realize how we actually hardly knew them, at least at the time. We were shown F.D.R. swimming but not told the tale of his crippling polio. Nowadays, of course, we're at the other extreme: month after month, we've been told more about the personal life of the President than even his wife had known, or wanted to know...
...population of infected but controlled cells would allow the host to develop the immune response necessary to defeat the real virus. Disabled viruses have offered the solution to two of the modern era's most problematic viruses, smallpox and polio...
...horrible marriage." Only after we sent a copy of the story did he reveal to us that "the little boy in the photo is me." Another photo intrigued an Argentine woman who asked about a picture in our 75th-anniversary issue showing a little girl receiving a polio shot. Even though the caption said the photo was taken in Alabama, and our reader had no recollection of ever having lived there, she thought, just maybe, it was she. Go figure...
...Polio vaccine 1955, by Jonas Salk, approved...