Word: salk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more than a century, New York's City College has enjoyed the reputation of a top-level school, a proletarian Harvard with such distinguished graduates as Felix Frankfurter, Jonas Salk, Bernard Malamud, Ira Gershwin and Alfred Kazin. In recent years, however, City College and the 19 other institutions that make up the tuition-free City University of New York (CUNY) have found it increasingly difficult to keep up their standards. Reason: a 1969 ruling that opened the doors of the university to any student holding a high-school diploma from New York City's school system, which graduates...
...Some of the other most recognizable scientists: Jonas Salk, Wernher von Braun, William Shockley, Edward Teller, Rene Dubos, Glenn Seaborg, Carl Sagan...
...might have added, the childhood as well. "I was a shy, ugly kid who led a big fantasy life," Cher, who was christened Cherlin, recalls. "I thought I was an angel from heaven sent to cure polio. When Dr. Salk did it, I was really pissed off." Even before that she was trying to woo the world through performance. "From the time I could talk, I began to sing. Singing just came from the inside-something I'd do without thinking whenever I felt good or was really blue. Dancing? Well, it released my tensions...
...child and received his doctorate in mathematics at Cambridge. He turned to his self-appointed task of blending science and human values after working on a statistical study of the devastation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the atom bomb. While continuing his scientific research, most recently at the Salk Institute in San Diego, he turned out a wide variety of books including The Western Intellectual Tradition and two volumes on William Blake...
...likely to be prosecuted. Nor will many state attorneys act against doctors who provide sex-related care to minors without parental approval. Many physicians would nonetheless like to see restrictions further eased. "We have failed to recognize the rights of children as people in many areas," says Dr. Lee Salk, pediatric psychologist at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center. "Teenagers should be treated as if they have the capacity for making decisions...