Word: humaneness
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...offers insight into yet another obscure matter: how nerves are deadened by anesthesia. The discovery that such anesthetics as procaine and the Indian poison curare combine easily with the receptor protein, blocking the biochemical reaction, could lead to better anesthetics and more efficient drugs for treating disorders of the human nervous system. "One of the basic functions of human life is coming closer to being understood," said Dr. Nachmansohn...
...Horizons program, costing up to $100 million, to be run by an agency patterned after the National Science Foundation. In Washington last week, top officials of the prestigious American Council on Education mulled ways to get Plaut's scheme started. As one of them put it: "Unlike gold, human talent is perishable. We can't let it lie in the hills until we get ready to mine...
...Thus the hubris of rationalism is matched by the hubris of irrationality, and the messianic arrogance of the Christian crusader is matched by the Yogi's arrogant attitude of detachment towards human suffering. Mankind is facing its most deadly predicament since it climbed down from the trees; but one is reluctantly brought to the conclusion that neither Yoga, Zen, nor any other Asian form of mysticism has any significant advice to offer...
...chapter on surgery describes techniques and operations that have been standard in the outside world for many years. Almost the only unfamiliar glimpse of the surgical future is a tentative plan to use refrigerated corpses (here, according to Gushchev and Vasihev, the girl stenographer faints) as sources of human spare parts...
...electric field surrounding the cable, says Engineer U. A. Dolmatovsky, will hold automobiles out of contact with the ground and at the same time propel them forward at 150 m.p.h. There will be no accidents no matter how heavy the traffic, because automatically guided cars are free of human error. Such high-speed cars will operate only on main highways. Inside cities says Dolmatovsky, the citizens will use slower, driverless taxis, which will be plentiful and free...