Word: bleeds
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...worse heathens than they did before," wrote Daniel Defoe of trans-Atlantic slavetraders in 1702. In 1695 "Oroonoko", a popular London play, depicted plantation life and a bloody slave insurrection with striking sympathy: "If you saw the bloody Cruelties, / They execute on every slight offence . . . / Your heart wou'd bleed for 'em." In 1703 the Boston Puritan Samuel Sewall wrote against slavery in "The Selling of Joseph", and as early as 1667 his predecessor, Michael Wigglesworth, had contended that God was color-blind: "Although Affliction tan the Skin, / Such saints are Beautiful within...
...this for a product lineup: sensors for cutting-edge military drone aircraft, minivan-size airport baggage scanners, lifelike human dummies that breathe and bleed? If it sounds like a grab bag, that just goes to show how rapidly the defense business is changing. And the best model for a post-9/11, homeland-security-era defense firm may be L-3 Communications, which makes each of these unique high-tech devices...
...want to explain the dreaded threat of non-conventional warfare to impressionable children. It’s quite difficult to explain to a child how poison gas stops your respiratory system, how it leaves your body swollen with scabs and rashes, or how it makes you bleed through your pores. Worse still, try explaining that the mask is useless against blistering agents, which enter through the skin...
When hearts at Harvard bleed for the poor, the disadvantaged, the underprivileged or whatever euphemism we prefer, we almost always do so as outsiders. Most of us are personally unaffected by the suffering we describe in our discussions of welfare, public housing and the unemployed, and yet we are still moved to compassion, reflection and sometimes action. If diversity is valuable because it expands our understanding of ourselves and the world we inhabit, then students from low-income backgrounds have as much to offer Harvard as other minority groups. Although the admissions office insists that less-affluent students are vigorously...
...very small percentage of infections can develop into the far more serious dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF), characterized by bleeding through bodily orifices and even the pores of the skin. In those who have contracted DHF, the body's tiniest blood vessels start leaking like bad plumbing, leading to a catastrophic drop in blood pressure, followed by shock and very often death. Half of those who get DHF will die without top-class medical attention, says Simon. Fluids must be administered intravenously and precisely to keep vascular pressure at a safe level. It can be tough to tell when dengue...