Word: burdens
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Floyd Nichols was indomitable. He was only 19 when he was found to have a rare, lethal form of cancer that required the removal of his colon. But the young Chicagoan finished college, in spite of the additional burden of dyslexia, and became a successful computer salesman before starting his own mainframe business. By his mid-30s, he sold it off to begin what his family and friends thought would be a leisurely early retirement. When he told them he would cure cancer instead, they just laughed. How could a layman--even a wealthy one--do what had stumped even...
...absence of junior captain Ryan Kelly, who has missed the past four games with a broken hand, Hench and Petruccelli have shown that despite their prodigious talent, they cannot shoulder the burden alone...
What price are we going to pay for giving this Viagra of the mind to our children [THE I.Q. GENE?, Sept. 13]? I'm not talking about the financial burden involved in genetically making kids smarter. What about the well-being of a child? Will children suddenly seem as if they are 40 when they are really 14? How about the mental stress that so many of today's geniuses complain of? Are we solving a problem for our children (was there one in the first place?), or are we only creating problems tenfold? EMIL VON MALTITZ, AGE 19 Buckhorn...
FINAL CARE Doctors and health experts have long known that much of the help for patients with terminal and chronic illnesses comes from family members. A new study in the New England Journal of Medicine reports that the burden is heaviest when the relative is suffering from a chronic illness like heart disease, which doesn't garner as much public attention or medical support as cancer. Such care, they note, disproportionately falls to women, who handle it in 72% of cases...
...Quakers will stumble into Cambridge bearing the heavy burden of a three-game losing streak. Penn came close to its first conference victory last Sunday at Cornell, but the Big Red prevailed in double-overtime...