Word: polio
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Helen Smith's past is one she would just as soon forget. A child of Chicago's housing projects, she ended up turning tricks, but the cash lined the pockets of her polio-stricken pimp named Crip. "I'd probably make $200 a night, but he took it all. I was the young one, and they liked to show me off, but I didn't know what I was doing," she says...
That extraordinary track record also made scientists and engineers into national heroes. They won the war, they got us to the moon, they protected us from polio and dozens of other illnesses, and they gave us a standard of living far higher than that of any other country. Young people were inspired to emulate their egghead heroes, and federal funding made that possible. Energy Secretary Bodman, for example, recalls that he went to graduate school on a National Science Foundation fellowship in 1960. "Without that fellowship," he says, "I can virtually guarantee I wouldn't have done...
...contracted polio in 1950, but his colleagues and students said that he remained musically unharmed by the illness...
...POLIO This is the year polio was supposed to be wiped out. That didn't happen, but the number of cases worldwide dropped from 350,000 in 1988 to 1,499 reported cases as of mid-November, and global-health experts are optimistic about eliminating the paralytic scourge...
There have been glitches, however; religious concerns have kept people from getting inoculated, not just in developing countries but also here at home. Five children--all from a group of Amish families in central Minnesota that don't believe in vaccination--developed polio this fall, something that hasn't happened in the U.S. since...