Word: ailments
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...paratroop veteran of the Afghan War who was promoted to Defense Minister three years ago. As the general who oversaw the final withdrawal of his country's army from eastern Germany last August -- an exercise most Russian soldiers still find humiliating -- Grachev has become the embodiment of every ailment besetting the once-mighty military. Communists and nationalists vilify him for the army's loss of prestige and morale. Reformers castigate him for its inefficiency and widespread corruption. Even Grachev's own troops would like to see him go; a recent poll conducted by a German public interest group indicated that...
...Common Ailment...
...letter and others -- written to his father, former Sen. Albert Gore, Sr., and disclosed this week in The New Yorker -- included inflammatory passages, such as: "We do have inveterate antipathy for Communism -- or paranoia as I like to put it. My own belief is that this form of psychological ailment -- in this case a national madness -- leads the victim to actually create the thing which is feared the most. It strikes me that this is precisely what the U.S. has been doing. Creating -- and if not creating, energetically supporting -- fascist, totalitarian regimes in the name of fighting totalitarianism. Greece, South...
Former President Ronald Reagan, 83, announced in an open letter to the public on Saturday that he's in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease, an incurable ailment that causes a progressive loss of mental faculties. Reagan said he and his wife Nancy want to promote public awareness of the disease. "I only wish there was some way I could spare Nancy from this painful experience," he wrote. "When the time comes I am confident that with your help she will face it with faith and courage...
...virus may be to blame for nearly 1 million cases of Type I diabetes in the U.S., the most severe form of the disease. Also known as juvenile diabetes, because it develops during childhood or adolescence, the ailment requires patients to have a daily insulin shot. The new findings, published in the journal Nature, don't indicate a cure anytime soon but could eventually lead to a vaccine...