Wolf, Marvin J., The Japanese Conspiracy, New York, Empire Books, 1983, 336 p.

New Books on the New B. P.

Master's performance in the New York City Marathon 1983-1999.

BACKGROUND Physical activity in older people is believed to slow down the natural aging process through its effects on disuse atrophy. OBJECTIVES To show that elite master (age above 50) male and female athletes, as a group, have improved their running times over the last two decades at a greater rate than their younger counterparts. METHODS Running time, age, and sex of all 415,000 runners...

The Language of the Deaf - The New York Review of Books

But what if the deaf have their own language—not oral but signed—as rich and expressive as any oral language, and as suitable for discussing science, art, or any other topic? What if this language is central to an independent culture of the deaf, with its own history and traditions, its own art forms and poetry? The deaf would then have to be viewed not as sharing a common pathology, but as a l...

The epidemiology of extrahepatic biliary atresia in New York State, 1983-98.

The aetiology of biliary atresia, the leading cause of neonatal extrahepatic jaundice and the main indication for liver transplantation in children, is unknown. Recent research has focused on an infectious aetiology and the development of viral models in animals. The few published epidemiological studies report conflicting results for seasonal, geographical, and racial variations in incidence. ...

How the Mind Works: Revelations - The New York Review of Books

Jean-Pierre Changeux is France's most famous neuroscientist. Though less well known in the United States, he has directed a famous laboratory at the Pasteur Institute for more than thirty years, taught as a professor at the Collège de France, and written a number of works exploring "the neurobiology of meaning." Aside from his own books, Changeux has published two wide-ranging dialogues about m...