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...particularly novel, as the author acknowledges himself, but it comes at a time when it is necessary: the increase in the prominence of fundamentalist faiths over the last decades alone makes Gomes’s book relevant. Gomes is right in his diagnosis of the church’s ailment as religion for the status quo, and he is right to spend much of his book pointing the way to the “good news” rather than criticizing the audience he could potentially reach. In his conclusion, he sums up his argument, stating...
...According to Corbett, who did all the promotional posters and pins for Butte's annual Evel Knievel Days each summer, Knievel was suffering from a lung ailment, pulmonary fibrosis. "When you spoke with him, it was an effort for him to finish a sentence without taking another breath," he said. "But he faithfully came to Evel Knievel Days in Butte, even though the severe altitude change, from sea level to mile-high, was especially hard on him. But he was tough...
...AILMENT Doctors say Wayne Watson, who ate two bags of microwave popcorn daily for 10 years, could have "popcorn lung" from inhaling the fumes of diacetyl, which gives the food its buttery taste...
...with the hot rage of a jilted suitor, or the curled lip of contempt that is the occupational habit of other critics (this one included), but with the fretful brow of a knowing, caring family doctor. He diagnoses the symptoms, then calmly and compassionately explains the nature of your ailment...
...after three by a softhearted--or perhaps lightheaded--sheriff, only to be ordered back by an irate judge amid a storm of public outrage and media glee. But even then it is not to the county lockup she is remanded but to a special medical facility, for an unspecified ailment, at 10 times the cost of regular jail...