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Even people who have never had a cold, if any there be, are pretty likely to know something about the peculiar miseries of the ailment. After all, nobody old enough to understand talk could easily avoid all knowledge of the cold: it is one disease that has never been discussed in whispers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Secret Life of the Common Cold | 11/16/1981 | See Source »

...very little can usefully be said on the subject, because the common cold remains a little black hole of a disease, ultimately obscure and myth-ridden. Science, to be sure, has learned a good deal about the cold. One unsettling modern discovery is that the invisible nature of the ailment is amazingly varied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Secret Life of the Common Cold | 11/16/1981 | See Source »

Peggy Stevens '81 died this week of a "heart ailment" while travelling to Spain on a Trustman scholarship...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Peggy Stevens '81 Dies on Spain Trip Of Heart Failure | 11/14/1981 | See Source »

...feet typically strike the ground 800 to 1,000 times a mile, with an impact equivalent to about three times the body's weight. The shock jolts the entire skeleton. Statistically, at least, every one of the nearly 30 million runners in the U.S. can expect some ailment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Diet and Exercise Dangers | 11/2/1981 | See Source »

...precisely because of the growing divergence and social stratification within the black community that new policies and proposals and necessary. However, before, prescribing a cure for an ailment, one must first diagnose the ailment and then prescribe the require cure. Given that Jordan still insists on portraying a monolithic "Black America Under Stage." It is clear that he has not carefully diagnosed the problems and thus invariably is proposing bad solutions...

Author: By Robert A. Watts, | Title: Failing to Help Those Who Need Help Most | 10/30/1981 | See Source »

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