Word: afflictions
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Promiscuous. The variant virus, herpes simplex type II, usually attacks below the waist. It causes painful sores and swelling on the thighs, buttocks and genital areas. Unlike the basic herpes simplex, which strikes indiscriminately, type II appears to exercise moral judgment−tending to afflict primarily the sexually promiscuous. It is prevalent among teen-agers and young adults and among prostitutes, but is rare in children and in celibate women. In fact, according to Bernard Roizman, professor of microbiology at the University of Chicago, genital herpes is the second most common venereal disease in the U.S., trailing only gonorrhea. Roizman...
...most dramatic applications of the rapidly expanding science of self-immunology?the study of the body's natural defenses against disease. That science is one of the most promising weapons yet developed by doctors in their long fight against cancer, which this year alone will afflict an estimated 650,000 Americans and kill more than 350,000. The older techniques?surgery, radiation and chemotherapy (drug treatments)?have been used successfully in bringing some cancers under control. But surgery usually results in unsightly and handicapping mutilation, radiation can destroy healthy as well as cancerous tissue, and chemotherapy produces unpleasant...
...appreciates this potential more than Good, who sees immunology as the key to understanding?and ultimately controlling?almost all diseases that afflict man. "Understanding the immune system will enable us to do far more than treat allergies or immunodeficiency diseases, or to control cancer," says Good. "It will enable us to understand the basic processes of life." Good will not predict when this millennium will occur; immunologists are still groping for answers to questions that have puzzled scientists for centuries. But there is little doubt that they are groping in the right direction...
...Their poverty and their struggle to conquer it had to bemuse their pride and sensitivity; only their occasional college freedom, and radical larks could give them the belief that they were free to live as they pleased, within economic limits, whether or not times were propitious. If their sins afflicted their children, so did those of their parents afflict them. They were only a generation away from the experience of pogroms, and their mother and father still reeked with the hate Cossacks aroused. "The Isaacson" Communism was composed of articles of faith; they used it as a way to feel...
These matters do not afflict body art to the same degree, even though the atmosphere of suspension and privilege peculiar to the recent avant-garde remains. But the trouble with most body pieces is that they are either so small in conception as to be negligible-for instance, Dennis Oppenheim slowly tearing off a section of his fingernail-or so grotesque in their implications, as with poor Schwarzkogler, that they amount to overkill. Triviality or threat: take your choice...