Word: wolfe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this tale of a $25-million real estate development, Harvard is the big, bad wolf who has finally figured out how to walk through the piglets' front door. All he has to do is stop blowing hard and bring a housewarming present...
...using PET scans to explore the brains of people suffering from schizophrenia, manic-depressive illness and senile dementia. Their hope is that by scanning hundreds, even thousands, of patients with such conditions, distinctive patterns of biochemical activity will emerge, making diagnosis easier and more precise. Says Chemist Alfred Wolf of Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island: "A diagnosis with cognitive tests, for example memory quizzes, takes days. The whole PET procedure takes under 90 minutes...
...Washington University in St. Louis, the University of California in Los Angeles and Donner Laboratory at Berkeley. There should be at least 15 different centers involved in PET scanning by 1983. By then Europe will have more than a dozen centers with PET equipment and Japan possibly ten. Says Wolf: "The field is just beginning to take off." -By Anastasia Toufexis
...After a dispiriting year, he left for the University of New Hampshire at Durham, only ten miles from Exeter. "I felt that I had not got anywhere," he says. In fact, he had come to the right place. The English faculty included a young Southern novelist named John Yount (Wolf at the Door, The Trapper's Last Shot), who told the restless student with the broad shoulders and burning brown eyes what he wanted to hear. "It was so simple," Irving remembers. " Yount was the first person to point out to me that anything I did except writing...
...attack, has it just as bad. Every time there is a full moon, he becomes a werewolf himself, his hands turning into claws and his teeth into fangs. All this seems to happen on-camera without a second's fadeout for the actor to jump into his wolf costume. At some screenings audiences burst into applause, as if they were watching a performance by a great actor...