Word: burnes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Giving burn patients...
This procedure, allowing terminal burn patients to choose death, in effect, sooner rather than later, has been in use at the Los Angeles County-University of Southern California Medical Center's burn unit for two years. During that time, 21 of 24 patients diagnosed as "having injury without precedent of survival" have chosen ordinary medical care and an earlier death. The other three - all men characterized by hospital personnel as "take charge types" in their 50s or 60s - also died; the longest survivor lived seven days...
Rampaging members of the underclass carried out much of the orgy of looting and burning that swept New York's ghettos during the July blackout. (In all, 55% of the arrested looters were unemployed and 64% had been previously arrested for other offenses.) They are responsible for most of the youth crime that has spread like an epidemic through the nation (TIME cover, July 11). Certainly, most members of this subculture are not looters or arsonists or violent criminals. But the underclass is so totally disaffected from the system that many who would not themselves steal or burn...
...feverish Italian drama, the color photography is not merely the medium, it is a potent metaphor. In scene after scene, Cinematographer Ennio Guarnier frames the setting-turn-of-the-century Bologna and Venice-in rich, painterly soft focus, but his colors are so intense that they almost seem to burn the film. Similarly, the leading characters-an eminent if controversial scientist and socialist, his beautiful daughter who is suffocating in a bourgeois marriage, his erratic lawyer-son who is so devoted to his trapped sister that he would kill for her-are creatures of grace and period charm, but their...
...their thirties who, having been schooled in '60s virtues, want more openness and disclosure in business, more debate before making decisions, more flexibility in personal and professional styles. Says Stephen McLin, 30, a vice president for the Bank of America (an outfit some incendiary radicals kept trying to burn down about seven years ago): "The impact of this generation will be felt. But the time isn't now. It's coming in about four or five years...