Word: baylor
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Cotton Bowl, January 1, at Dallas: Meet the most overrated team in the country, 9-2 Alabama. Meet potential national champion 10-1 Baylor. Watch Bear Bryant cry into his hat, as Baylor pulls...
...blood levels of a form of cholesterol called high-density lipoprotein (HDL). This substance helps remove other, more harmful types of cholesterol from the body and presumably reduces the chances of such materials building up in the arteries. Studying 218 marathoners, joggers and nonrunners, G. Harley Hartung of the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston found that the marathoners had the highest level of HDL. Other factors may be at work; marathoners tend to be relaxed, eat healthful foods, not smoke and stay thin...
...many doctors, a headache is "cephalalgia." Itching is "pruritus." Swallowing is "deglutition." Professionals tend to view such words as tools of the trade and an aid to precise speech. But Lois DeBakey, a professor of scientific communication at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, thinks that technical jargon not only alienates patients but masks fuzzy thinking...
...seminars and with a traveling lecture entitled "Please, Doctor, Watch Your Language," DeBakey (sister of Heart Surgeon Michael DeBakey) campaigns against "medicant," her term for the linguistic disease that afflicts physicians. Lois and her sister Selma, who is also on the Baylor faculty, spoof the ways in which medicant fractures ordinary language by asking audiences to scan horrible examples from medical journals. A favorite: the article by a professional administrator that urged medical staffs to "take an aggressively penetrating approach to the communicative dimensions of the interfaces between institutions of medicine." Another example: "Birth weight and gestation were obtained...
CALIFORNIA ANGELS: They lost fireballer Nolan Ryan to free-agency, but they gained Bruce Kison, shortstop Freddy Patek and right-fielder Al Cowens. Of course, there's always MVP Don Baylor...