Word: research
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Anne Roe, a pioneer worker in normal adult psychology, alcoholism, public health, and applied psychology, has been appointed Lecturer on Education. She will teach courses in Education and do research in guidance...
TIME'S four-color picture stories are the product of long, painstaking research and planning by editors, correspondents and photographers. This week's color story in Art on Libya's lost city of Leptis Magna started as usual-but did not end that way. The editors decided that Leptis Magna would be a good color subject, gathered a fat file of material on the lost city, considered what photographer would be best for the job, asked the Rome bureau to check whether any photographer there had taken any color pictures of the place that might serve...
Nightmare Feeling. Nowhere in the world is medicine yet practiced in this manner. And automation experts insist that it never will be-quite. But at half a dozen U.S. medical and cybernetic research centers, scores of human computers are at work trying to bring the card-shuffling business machines and the electronic computer into more areas of medicine. At System,Development Corp. in Santa Monica, Calif., an eleven-man team under Engineer Charles J. Roach, 38, has figured after a half-year study that no fewer than six areas invite automation. Of greatest direct interest to the patient: taking...
Still not clear from the research is the cause of the jerks. They are often triggered by a slight noise. Several of Dr. Oswald's informants thought they were associated with periods of anxiety. (In his own case, three out of four occurred in one night when he was trying to stay alert for a cry from one of his children who had an ear infection.) All the jerks came before deep sleep...
...Britain a dozen scientists working for the Medical Research Council were taking test doses of two radioactive iso-fopes of strontium. With atomic numbers 85 and 87, these are less deadly than strontium 89 or 90, but still have enough activity for their presence and distribution in the body to be checked by radiation counters. Missing from the evidence being studied in this test: any mention of how much strong, black tea the volunteers were tippling...