Word: warded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only surprise in the protest is that professionals in the West took so long to acknowledge the documented evidence of malpractice in the Soviet Union. The first extensive revelations were made in 1963 by Author Valery Tarsis, whose book Ward Seven described his internment in a Moscow psychiatric hospital. More recently, Geneticist Zhores Medvedev and his twin brother. Historian Roy Medvedev, published A Question of Madness (TIME, Sept. 27), which tells of their struggle to win Zhores' release from a mental hospital after he published an attack on the theories of Stalin's favorite scientist, Geneticist T.D. Lysenko...
...cardiopathy, a common disease of the heart muscle. He lives alone and has a difficult time sticking to the diet necessary to control his salt intake, which is essential if he is to prevent heart failure. As a result, Perry, who also has diabetes, periodically lands in a medical ward of the Boston Veterans Administration Hospital. A year ago he would have stayed for perhaps two months in a section nominally reserved for the acutely ill, wearing hospital pajamas and attended by orderlies or nurses, until the day doctors judged him ready for release...
...wear street clothes if he likes. He makes his own bed and keeps his room tidy. For meals he can go to a cafeteria, and for company he has not the seriously ill but people like himself who are convalescing. Perry is in the hospital's new intermediate ward, which it calls its "selfhelp unit...
...that the President is in excellent health. But the doctor is taking no chances. Tkach is updating Nixon's inoculation record for yellow fever, plague, cholera, typhoid, typhus, tetanus and smallpox, though China has brought such infectious diseases well under control. Bottled water will be taken along, though Ward's tests showed that the local supply will not trouble American digestive systems...
...blood blended into mulatto culture, which continued to prey on the tribal Indian. Throughout the 17th and 18th centuries in the Mato Grosso, private armies of bandeirantes pillaged for gold, diamonds and slaves. Thousands of Indians who were not killed by gun died because they lacked the antibodies to ward off their invaders' most common illnesses. The Indians retaliated sporadically, piercing their persecutors with long arrows, eating their flesh and occasionally shrinking their heads (which commanded a high price as curios in the civilized world...