Word: breakdowns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...know now that long-term psychological damage may result from L.S.D. Such damage may be glossed over by the pleasure and enthusiasm engendered by the substance, but we have seen too many cases of psychic breakdown to doubt the serious dangers of the drug. It is even possible that the brain is structurally damaged. There is recent evidence that L.S.D. attacks hereditary genes...
...short, our professional medical opinion is that playing with L.S.D. is a desperately dangerous form of "drug roulette." The medical evidence is clear. Any person taking L.S.D. runs the clear risk of psychotic breakdown and long-run physiological damage
Broome eight years to ferret out the guinea pigs' secret. These animals, and a few closely related species such as the agouti, have in their blood the enzyme L-asparaginase, so called because it effects a chemical breakdown of the amino acid L-asparagine.*Many of the body's cells need asparagine as a source of nourishment, and normal cells manufacture it within themselves. But some types of cancer cells, which also need it, cannot make it. So they steal it from healthy cells...
...Total Immersion technique, as Berlitz officials unashamedly admit, is suspiciously close to that of brainwashing. "What we try to do," says New York Berlitz Director Emanuel Huarte, "is to break students down mentally until they lose the ability to resist and are receptive to fresh ideas." The breakdown begins to the clang of an 8:15 a.m. bell in a windowless classroom, where the student faces one of his four alternating instructors. Student and teacher speak nothing but the foreign language during eleven 40-minute periods, relieved only by five-minute English breaks. All day long, the instructor points...
...midafternoon, the dazed student begins to show fatigue. At that point, another instructor joins in, grills him on the day's words. In this "breakdown" period, the student may rebel, laugh, refuse to talk, curse his tormentor-but it is a time, insist the teachers, in which he can almost unconsciously absorb the toughest problem of a new language, such as complex tenses. The day ends at 6 p.m., after a 20-minute review. Then the student takes home two more hours' worth of reading and composition assignments...