Word: asking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this leaves Null's believers with a decidedly mixed message. For those willing to go panning through his books looking for the gold mixed in with the sediment, there's a lot to be had. For many consumers, particularly seriously ill ones, that may simply be too much to ask. Null himself acknowledges that staying healthy can be a difficult business, requiring people to rip out the very foundation of their beliefs about health care. The problem is, some of what he's replacing it with feels a little wobbly...
After the Columbine High shooting, school psychologists employed a similar approach, not only with students from Columbine but with those at 12 nearby schools. "Debriefing is a therapeutic opportunity to get people to open up, ask questions and unburden the psychic pain they are carrying around," says Theodore Feinberg, a New York-based psychologist who flew to Littleton as part of a team sent by the National Association of School Psychologists...
...religious revival, and Al Gore appears on Larry King Live, not just to talk about his three-point plan to make the Internet less toxic but also to recall his days as a divinity student and cite parables and argue that Littleton is "a spiritual signal," a chance to ask questions that aren't for church or state, but both...
...Kosovo and see more than geopolitics at work, if we suspect that saints may sit beside us in the library and devils may drive BMWs and work in the pizza parlor and leave no telltale trail of ash as they go about their work, if we just find ourselves asking questions we haven't had occasion to ask before, we will know more than we did three weeks ago, and be wiser...
Well, what's wrong with that? the libertarians ask. Why should a destitute person not be allowed to give away a kidney that he may never need so he can live a better life? Why can't a struggling mother give her kidney so her kids can go to college...