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...Brazelton Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale has been called a "landmark" and it only requires a flashlight, a red ball, a bell, a rattle and a safety pin. Success depends on the skill of the examiner, who must guide the baby in and out of sleep, calm alertness and crying, while he watches the child's reaction to his simple stimuli. The baby will establish his own pattern of responses out of the infinite number of possibilities, and so give the examiner clues to personal characteristics. "With the scale, we can identify an active baby, a quiet baby, a cuddly baby...
This humanization and popularization may have cost him some prestige among his fellow pediatricians. Despite the many accolades (his colleagues have called him a "giant," a "pioneer," and the Brazelton scale a "landmark") he is still only an associate professor at the Medical School...
According to Richard M. Hunt, the University Marshal. Harvard has no current plans to celebrate the 100th birthday of its most recognizable landmark. Yet Hunt says that the statue is one of the most photographed in the world...
...known as atherosclerosis. In 1913, Russian Pathologist Nikolai Anitschkow showed that he could produce similar deposits, or plaques, in the arteries of rabbits just by feeding them a diet rich in cholesterol. Subsequent research further supported the connection between diet and cardio-vascular disease. Epidemiologist Ancel Keys conducted a landmark study in seven nations beginning in 1947. He discovered direct correlations between a country's incidence of heart disease, the level of cholesterol in the blood and the amount of animal fat in the national diet. The Finns, with the fattiest diet, had the highest cholesterol levels...
When the New York Times won its landmark 1964 libel defense against a suit brought by Montgomery, Ala., City Commissioner L.B. Sullivan, journalists throughout the U.S. hailed the Supreme Court's ruling as a triumph for freedom of expression. The Justices in effect shifted the burden of proof from publishers to plaintiffs, and required that public officials must prove that the journalists either knew the disputed stories were false or acted in "reckless disregard" of the truth. For several years, it seemed all but impossible for a prominent person to bring a successful libel suit; journalists were emboldened...