Word: ailments
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...first time Marc Laidlaw played Doom it made him sick. It was not the violence; it was motion sickness--the game was so intense and immersive it actually messed with his inner ear. He immediately switched to the gentle, atmospheric adventure game Myst and developed another ailment: he became addicted. "I pretty much didn't get up from the computer for two days," he remembers...
Archbishop Geron Iakovos, leader of the Greek Orthodox Church in America for 37 years and a graduate of Harvard Divinity School, died on April 10 from a pulmonary ailment...
First, let’s count your blessings. Life could be worse: he could have a snoring problem. Nevertheless, I diagnose this as a definite “roommate conflict,” a very common ailment at Harvard College, or any place that lumps eclectic bunches of overachievers into small, confined spaces...
...Castro confirmed a news report that his country was Vesco's latest host. But Castro ridiculed speculation that the fugitive American financier was being held against his will. Castro told a news conference in Havana that Vesco arrived in Cuba three years ago seeking medical treatment for an unknown ailment. He is wanted in the U.S. in connection with a $224 million fraud case involving Investors Overseas Services Ltd. and for allegedly making an illegal contribution to Richard Nixon's 1972 presidential reelection campaign...
DIED. Linden Forbes Sampson Burnham, 62, President of Guyana and authoritarian ruler of his Caribbean-rim nation (pop. 800,000) since two years before independence in 1966; during an operation for a throat ailment; in Georgetown, Guyana. Folksy and sharp-witted, with a flair for oratory, he won the 1964 election by playing on tensions between ethnic Indians and blacks and on U.S. and British fears of Marxist Cheddi Jagan, the first pre-independence Premier. Thereafter he blended leftist rhetoric, aggressive nonalignment and a socialist policy that professed economic self-sufficiency but led, partly because of depressed commodity prices...