Word: underground
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Alexander Podrabinek, an underground-newspaper editor who was once exiled to Siberia for nearly six years for examining Soviet psychiatry in a book titled Punitive Medicine, contends that the changes are strictly cosmetic. Even though the special psychiatric hospitals are nominally controlled by the civilian Ministry of Health, he notes, the guards are still military personnel and the doctors commissioned officers. Says Podrabinek: "The only thing that has changed is the label." He claims that new language in the regulations has actually given the government even greater latitude to misuse psychiatry. Under the old rules, "mentally ill" people could...
...chaos of the student strike escalated on the Harvard campus, an underground journal with a mysterious pipeline to the administration's secret documents added fuel to the conflict with its own brand of news and commentary...
...meeting, John M. Clancy of the Boston architectural firm Goody, Clancy and Associates described the plans for two six-story structures to be built on the lot. He said the red brick buildings will contain a day care center and playground for 60 children and a one-story underground garage with 82 spaces...
...care center and underground parking lot are also planned, O'Connell said...
...many high-security settings. One model, manufactured by EyeDentify of Beaverton, Ore., works by directing a low- intensity infrared light through the pupil to the back of the eye. Within two seconds the retinal pattern, viewed by a camera, is compared with data in stored records. At American Airlines' underground computer center in Tulsa, a dozen eye scanners screen the retinal patterns of 500 employees. "People were afraid of it at first," says Hani Rabi, an engineering manager for the airline. "But now they feel very comfortable with the security it affords...