Word: thirsted
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Known at Yale as "O.K.," Utah-born Sociologist Moore, 40, launched his experiment as a result of recent ferment among behavioral scientists, who no longer see man and beast as motivated mainly by the "primary" drives of hunger, thirst and sex. Another major motivation, the scientists now argue, is a "competence" drive-the appetite to master complex relationships that is the apparent basis of problem solving. Moore's special interest is the problem in which the seeker has . no rules or fixed goals to guide him. Most notable example: the mystery of how children learn to speak their...
...principal tributary streams. For one brief period in 1948, India, eager to divert the flow into her desert territories, cut off Pakistan's water. As the downstream areas turned parched and seared, excitable Pakistanis called for war, crying that a quick death was better than death by thirst and starvation. India agreed to turn the water back on, but the Indus remained a major source of the antagonism that has long divided the two nations...
...plant is part of a $10 million U.S. Government project to prepare for the world's fast-growing demands for more fresh water. Today the U.S. uses 312 billion gallons a day, will need 600 billion gallons a day in 1980. In other parts of the world the thirst for sweet water is immeasurably greater...
...painful manipulation of inscrutable symbols that they miss the underlying concepts. They either teach it mechanically or try to liven it up with "interesting" problems, e.g., computing interest. Such teaching is completely alien to the child's mind, says Beberman. "Children are not miniature adults. They have a thirst for the abstract and the world of fancy." They may even grasp math relationships faster than reading and writing. As famed Swiss Educator Jean Piaget put it after introducing complex topological math to six-year-olds: "They knew it anyway. It is the language and thought of the child...
...Heat Stroke. The body temperature soars to 106° or higher; sweating stops and leaves the skin hot, dry and flushed. Warning signs include fever, headache, restlessness, thirst, and absence of sweating. Treatment is drastic, and the physician must not leave it to the nurses. Most effective is to put the patient in an ice bath until the rectal temperature drops to 101°. If shock sets in, the patient will need intravenous fluids, plasma and drugs to boost the blood pressure. Mortality ranges from...