Word: polio
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...decades the deans of 36 other medical schools have taken their degrees in Cambridge. "Most medical schools have a single university hospital," notes former Harvard Dean Robert Ebert, whereas Harvard has affiliations with 13. These unexcelled facilities have helped generate such breakthroughs as John Enders' growing of the polio virus in a test tube, the first invitro fertilization of a human egg, the first successful kidney transplant and pioneering lab methods for growing skin and bone...
...more space shuttle will not meet the challenge. For the moment, America has lost its nerve and its vision from the top down. What we do in space now is just as important as the Panama Canal, the atom bomb, the cure for polio, the trip to the moon. The most frightening deficit is in boldness...
East, 55, had suffered paralysis of his legs since 1955, when polio cut him down while he was serving as a Marine lieutenant at Camp Lejeune. In recent years, hypothyroidism and urinary problems plagued him, and he sought psychiatric help for depression. Even though his health problems were widely known, his death shocked friends and family alike. His wife Priscilla received the news by phone from North Carolina's senior U.S. Senator Jesse Helms. For Helms, East was not only a political protege but a philosophical double. East is remembered mainly for having sponsored a measure in the Senate that...
...Israeli-born Perlman, 40, came to theUnited States in 1958 and attained internationalprominence as a musician by the time he was 18.Perlman, who was stricken by polio at age five,also serves as an active spokesman for thehandicapped...
Similarly, the present-day attitude toward disease has been tempered by modern medicine. Many of the ogres of the past, including small pox, polio, and tuberculosis, have been tamed or eliminated. With the advent of microsurgery, even chainsaws and lawnmowers have lost their element of danger. Death has been driven back to the frontier of old age, and so become distant and less real...