Word: prolongation
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Reduced Risk. Milan's Professor Carlo Sirtori agrees with Cross and adds mongolism to the list of congenital defects associated with outdated ova. The conventional Ogino-Knaus schedule for contraceptive rhythm bars intercourse from the twelfth to the 15th day of the cycle; Sirtori would prolong the ban through the 17th day. This way, says Sirtori, both the risk of an unwanted pregnancy and the possibility of a malformed baby are reduced...
...years, food manufacturers have used a chemical called butylated hydroxytoluene, or BHT, to prolong the storage life of fats in a variety of products-from shortening to salad oil to potato chips. Now researchers are beginning to wonder if the preservative cannot also be used to prolong the life of man. That possibility is suggested by Biochemist Denham Harman of the University of Nebraska medical school. With regular feedings of BHT, he was able to lengthen the life span of a strain of laboratory mice by 50%. "In human terms," says Harman, "this is equivalent to increasing life expectancy from...
...215T CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). "Can We Live to be 100?" is an examination of advances in medical science that promise to prolong life...
...undermining. Even today, much of what passes for "counseling" of adolescents ends up short-curcuiting adolescence by undercutting the questioning, rebellion, and search that should accompany adolescent experience. As more adequate "special help" becomes available for American youth, that help must seek to intensify, deepen, and in many cases, prolong adolescence, rather than simply to hasten the passage to adulthood...
...killing him, while he still retains vitality enough to withstand the most Draconian of operations. If the transplant should fail, he will certainly die. Thus the surgeons will, in effect, have killed him (as they might in any major operation), no matter how lofty their motive in trying to prolong his life and make it more satisfying...