Word: stilling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hauck's action follows similar decisions by courts in Idaho and West Virginia. It provides new hope that the courts will soon strike down the super-majority provisions still in effect in 12 states, making it easier for school districts to approve the bond issues they so desperately need...
That geneticists still have much to learn was shown by the disagreement over the importance and effects of an extra Y chromosome in males. Jerome Lejeune held fast to his controversial contention that this chromosomal aberration is closely associated with criminality. Delinquency, he said, is 20 times as common among men with XYY defects as among those with normal chromosome endowment...
...woman at age 25 to one in 50 at age 45. For a woman's ova, unlike her husband's sperm, are not manufactured continuously so that they are always fresh, but are laid down in a sort of pre-egg form while she is still in her mother's womb, or shortly after birth. This explains why the mother's health, at conception and during pregnancy, may be important a generation later. Therefore, West Germany's Dr. Widukind Lenz concluded, "the present trend toward earlier sexual maturity, earlier marriage and earlier reproduction is biologically...
Since Louis Braille devised his raised-dot alphabet in 1829, there has been no other practical means for the blind to read. For 17-year-old Candy Linvill, blind since the age of three, Braille's system of dots posed little problem, but she was still confined to those books and publications that are issued in Braille. Now, because of an ingenious new device on loan from her father's laboratory, she is freed from that limitation...
Spongy Tundra. The Arctic, unlike land in temperate climates, does not easily recover from man-made disruptions. Because of the cold, orange peels do not decay for months. Twenty-five-year-old bulldozer tracks are still plainly visible on the tundra today, testimony to the slowness of the land's ability to heal itself. But the basic problem is that most of the Arctic lies on a hard foundation of permafrost-ever-frozen ground that prevents drainage. In the brief summer months, a thin cover of tundra soil thaws a foot deep. But if the ground is gouged...