Word: sri
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...saved democracy in Sri Lanka, Junius Richard Jayawardine, our Prime Minister...
Aliens didn't swoop down on Clarke's Sri Lanka home, so instead of Overmind the reader gets The View from Serendip, a hodgepodge of autobiographical trivia, tepid sea stories and futuristic speculation. The essays on space and technology go several light-years towards redeeming Serendip, but they don't go far enough...
...drug and department stores, factories and hospital lobbies across the country. They are not only cheap and fast -a reading takes a little more than a minute-but impressively accurate. Comparing their results with those obtained by conventional means, Dr. Joseph Chadwick, director of the health-systems program at SRI International (formerly the Stanford Research Institute) in Menlo Park, Calif, concluded that the machines are "more consistent than a well-trained blood-pressure technician...
...malaria has been most dramatic in India, where the number of reported cases has soared from an alltime low of 40,000 in 1966 to 1,430,000 in 1972 and 5.8 million last year. One day last week 9,000 new cases were recorded in New Delhi alone. Sri Lanka, Pakistan and African countries south of the Sahara have also reported spectacular rises in the disease. Central America has been extremely hard hit; in Honduras, for example, malaria cases rose from 7,503 in 1974 to 30,289 in 1975 and 48,804 in 1976. El Salvador, poorest...
Other nations such a Mexico, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Thailand, have established nation-wide family planning projects, also with enthusiastic government support. The fact that these programs have had some success gives reason to hope that with enough money and courageous leadership, the Third World may be able to decrease significantly its birth rate...