Word: systemization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Transplants, Cooley told an American College of Cardiology meeting in Los Angeles, have produced evidence that the development of a successful artificial heart "may actually be easier than we had previously believed." The explanation: nature has provided the mammalian (including the human) heart with an elaborate fail-safe system of dual controls, one through the nervous system and another through hormonal channels. Early researchers on artificial hearts were overwhelmed by the difficulties of trying to duplicate these enormously complex natural systems. This, said Cooley, is not necessary...
Simple Abstinence. Treatment is still the subject of disputation among experts, except for the obvious measure of keeping the child away from lead long enough to give his system a chance to excrete the overload. It usually takes at least twice as long to remove the lead as it took for the child to take it in, says Chisolm. For the milder cases, this appears to be sufficient. For more severe poisoning, especially if there are signs of brain damage, some doctors use drugs called chelating agents. These drugs work by substituting calcium for the lead, which is then excreted...
Although the experts at the Sirhan trial are all fully qualified, the fact is that many of the best minds in the profession refuse to appear in court, on the grounds that they cannot give adequate and accurate testimony under the rigid rules of the adversary system. As a result, supposedly expert opinion as to a defendant's mental state is sometimes put forward by second-rate practitioners with a talent for publicity...
Clearly, the system cries out for reform. It not only distributes the load unfairly, but also has unintended economic and social side effects, ranging from the ridiculous to the calamitous. Ever since federal income tax rates soared during World War II, the opportunity to grow wealthy through hard work has been largely denied to salaried people. Instead, the road to riches twists through the thickets of tax avoidance. As a result, an inordinate number of man hours are spent in figuring out ways to outwit the collector. Because of its sheer intricacy, the tax code is one law that many...
Transforming today's tax morass into a system with less capacity for social damage will require strenuous effort...