Word: prolonged
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...medical experience. It has overthrown all existing theories." Neurologists outside Russia would not go as far as that. What the Landau case did, they conceded, was to undermine such arguments as the one propounded in last week's London medical journal Lancet, that doctors should not seek to prolong the lives of braindamaged patients in "irrevocable comas." By previously accepted standards, Landau had been in such a coma for months...
Meanwhile the mere hope that a change in diet will prolong life is filling U.S. kitchens and men's stomachs with hitherto esoteric oils; housewives are chattering with superficial knowingness about polyunsaturated fats.* Americans get an average of 40% to 45% of their daily calories in fats, and before the cholesterol craze came along, most of the fat was saturated. Some doctors have urged simply cutting down fats, of whatever kind, to about 30% of the total caloric intake. Others have advocated substituting polyunsaturated fat for much of the saturated stuff, and worrying less about the total intake. Conservative...
John Archibald has made a serious charge in his recent letter to the CRIMSON in which he asserts that "blatant graft" exists in the handling of tickets within the Department of Athletics. It is not my desire to prolong the tempest brewed by his irresponsible charge, but as Director of Athletics, I feel compelled to comment that there has never been the slightest question as to the loyalty, honesty, and integrity of the ticket office staff...
...fiction of Western liberals. Since 1947, India has been consistently embroiled in territorial disputes within its own borders. It fought a bloody war over Kashmir with Pakistan that was tacitly approved by Mahatma Gandhi, took "police action'' against Hyderabad when the Nizam of that state tried to prolong its independence, has for years been fighting in Nagaland against hostile Naga forces who desire independence. As Menon put it last week with disarming candor: "We have never abjured violence against any country when it's to our interest...
...Long to Prolong? A vigorous defense of what he called "aggressive or extraordinary means of treatment" to prolong life came from Dr. David A. Karnofsky, of Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research, who was recently called in as a consultant on the treatment of House Speaker Sam Rayburn...