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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...examinations planned for next year, the establishment of specific course requirements, and the cross-listing of department offerings in other sections of the course catalogue. Many concentrators, however, present a different portrait of the 1977 edition of the Afro Department. And while many of their grievances--those of recent origin as well as the long-standing complaints--have not received nearly as much publicity as Afro has traditionally attracted throughout its eight-year history, the persistence of the charges hurled by many concentrators (and seconded by some junior Afro faculty members) furnishes a sharp contrast to the apparently untroubled facade...
...from the slightly mundane--his insistence on doing all lab work himself, forgoing the use of technicians and assistants--to what Everett I. Mendelsohn, professor of the History of Science, says is some of the most inventive scientific thinking--Wald's use of biochemistry to redirect theories on the origin of the universe. At all levels of understanding, science, for Wald, is a universal language. "I am deeply glad to be a scientist because I think that human beings have always and everywhere asked the same questions," he says...
...fall, dozens of people in eastern Connecticut-both children and adults-have been stricken with these painful and puzzling symptoms, which often come in repeated episodes that last for weeks and even months at a stretch. At first, doctors suspected rheumatoid arthritis, a serious disease of still unknown origin that can permanently cripple the joints. Then, learning that almost all the victims lived in three adjoining towns along the Connecticut River-Lyme, Old Lyme and East Haddam (total population 12,000)-medical investigators from the Yale University School of Medicine came to a decidedly different conclusion. Because rheumatoid arthritis does...
...case of rheumatoid arthritis, some doctors suspect malfunctions of the immune system, perhaps triggered by viruses. Indeed, in recent years, researchers have linked at least four different kinds of arthritis in Africa, Asia and Australia to viruses apparently transmitted by mosquitoes. Other types of arthritis may be bacterial in origin or simply the result of stress at certain joints. In any case, the lack of a clear understanding of many of arthritis' manifestations has complicated treatment; everything from corticosteroids to copper bracelets and special diets has been tried by sufferers. But the most common-and sometimes the best-therapy...
...workers exposed to asbestos, and are discovering another rare form of liver cancer among those who have worked with vinyl chloride. In 1958, a British physician named John Higginson was challenged by a skeptical scientific community when he suggested that 70% to 80% of all cancers are environmental in origin. Now many scientists suspect that the actual figure may be closer...