Word: thought
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...LAST SECTION of Disturbing the Universe unveils Dyson's far-reaching ideas for the future. "I am obsessed with the future," he writes, and then offers the imaginative products of this obsession: clades and clones, interstellar colonizations and "thought experiments." There is even a little theoretical physics. But this is the weakest part of the book. It is more science fiction than science...
...some of the appearances of a state visit. She was greeted at Bangkok airport by Thailand's Crown Prince Vajiralongkorn, Premier Kriangsak Chomanan, and a slew of Cabinet ministers. Responding to a welcoming speech by the Premier, she said that Americans were "filled with alarm" over the thought "that the Cambodian people are facing extinction as a result of war and famine." The next day, at high tea with the royal family at their palace in northeastern Thailand, she handed Queen Sirikit a check for $100,000 to help pay for medical supplies...
...Premier Takeo Miki demanded that Ohira step down as Premier and party leader, and his call was soon echoed by Fukuda, whom Ohira had ousted as Premier last December. But the Bull refused to quit, thus triggering a fierce party struggle. At first, says one L.D.P. Diet member, "we thought that it was like any fight between father and mother. It would get serious, but in the end there would be no divorce." Yet as the days went by, all attempts at compromise proved fruitless...
...each night shouting, "Grab your ankles!" and try to force other patients into the classic precrash body position. A year later, she was still overcome with guilt that she had survived and her passengers died. One recurrent fantasy was that her arms and legs were gone. Says Purl: "I thought maybe if I had no legs or arms, I would be a victim of the crash and that would be O.K. I looked into the mirror one morning and beat it to splinters because I looked so good. My husband was absolutely supportive, but I divorced him. I woke...
...seen a single case when valid consent was given." But some patients claim the pressure comes mostly from family and friends who urge them not to undergo treatment. Says one Los Angeles college student, 22, who failed to respond to drugs and agreed to have ECT: "The hospital patients thought I was crazy to do it." Still, to protect the patients' rights, several states have rules governing use of ECT. California's model statute calls for seconding opinions by doctors and an attorney and a 24-hour delay between the time permission is given and treatment is started...