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...even the most experienced clinician finds such differentiation difficult. And in our experience, the greater his experience, the more reluctant he is to label, characterize, and "diagnose" adolescent behavior. Untold harm is done by adults who attach to some transient aspect of the adolescent's behavior a self-confirming label like "delinquent," "schizophrenic," "homosexual," or "psychopathic." The vulnerable adolescent, already confused as to who he is, may seize upon even such negative labels in a despairing effort to be someone. Many of the disturbances of adolescence that endure into adulthood are the products of a similar interaction of the adolescent...
...Fleming in 1928, the mold was considered little more than a biological curiosity for a decade until the Australia-born Florey and a team of Oxford researchers reduced it to a pure, yellowish powder that destroyed all kinds of bacteria, saving thousands of lives during World War II and untold millions since...
...name to a colonial college where classroom supplies, according to local history, consisted of 500 gallons of New England rum. He would be proud as ever today. News reached the Dartmouth campus in Hanover, N.H., that a Canadian Pacific freight train had been derailed in nearby Vermont, capsizing untold thousands of cases of beer. One contingent of Dartmouth Indians made off with nearly 200 cases the first night, and a mob of them got away with 300 more the next night. The liberated liquid is now buried around campus in snow-covered mounds...
...Store" that supplies needy Negroes with free food, clothing and furniture; a "Citizens Alert" legal-aid group to guard against police brutality; two halfway houses for released mental patients. Glide was instrumental in organizing San Francisco's "Huckleberry House" for runaway youths (TIME, Sept. 15), has steered untold down-and-outers to rehabilitation and jobs...
...primarily in mountains and course through relatively narrow channels, but flows sluggishly across flatland. jungle and swamp areas. Each year at flood stage the Rio Negro overflows its banks, while draining some 253,000 sq. mi. - an area almost as vast as Texas. In the process, its waters dissolve untold quantities of plant juices and tree sap. Now scientists have discovered that the Rio Negro's botanically infused waters may be a simple, untapped and essentially unlimited supply of a new and fool proof insecticide...