Word: alicja
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Kapuscinski, who suffered from cancer for many years, ran out of time before he could write a long-envisioned book on his Polish homeland. But from the apartment he and his pediatrician wife Alicja shared in a working-class district of Warsaw, he pounded out articles and gave interviews right up to his final hospitalization. In contrast to Kapuscinski's astounding output, Herodotus left only The Histories. In its opening passage, the ancient scribbler declares that his purpose in writing - stunningly ambitious for the era - is "to prevent the traces of human events from being erased by time." The Histories...
...March 20, the Strasbourg-based European Court of Human Rights criticized Poland for having no effective legal framework for pregnant women to assert their right to abortion on medical grounds. It awarded 36-year old Alicja Tysiac 25,000 euros, or about $33,250, in damages after doctors refused to grant her permission to terminate her pregnancy despite serious risk to her eyesight. Tysiac, who suffers from severe myopia, became pregnant for the third time in 2000. Three doctors told her she could go blind if she gave birth but, contravening Polish law, refused to write her a certificate that...
...women's rights groups. Only about a hundred abortions - within the letter of the law - are being carried out every year in Poland since the introduction of the legislation. "Women seeking help in public hospitals are being treated like beggars," said Kazimiera Szczuka, a feminist activist. "The case of Alicja is not the only...
Despite being a newcomer to the NCAA championships, Cross performed beyond her years and walked away with the 2005 national foil title. Cross secured her victory by shutting out Alicja Kryczalo, a three-time foil national champion from eventual winning team Notre Dame, in the final bout...