Word: chickening
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...detecting, in Dubuffet's entranced and ironic use of thick pastes, an excremental vision parallel to Jarry's. One of the portraits of French intellectuals in his extravagantly controversial 1947 show at the Galerie Rene Drouin depicted the Surrealist writer Georges Limbour under the title Limbour Fashioned from Chicken Droppings. And even critics who disliked such mordant images were right on target about the context into which Dubuffet emerged, that of a postwar Paris depressed by material shortages and riven by political suspicions. "An empty pantry," wrote one critic, "assures the triumph of a Dubuffet...
...water might go back through holes eroded in the levees or through gravity drains that are closed during floods but reopened to allow a backflow into the river.) Then comes the monumental task of cleanup. The receding waters will leave behind all manner of wreckage. Examples: the floating chicken coops and broken tree branches Paul Rice has to steer his flat-bottomed boat past to reach his submerged home in St. Charles County. Or the lumber, three ice chests and four plastic garbage cans he has plucked from the waters around his house and placed on his roof -- still...
Then there is the economic issue. In a 1985 study, the CDC determined that the medical costs of treating chicken pox were not great enough to warrant spending the money on a national immunization program. However, when the indirect costs of missed work and school time are factored in, advocates say, the U.S. could save five times as much as it would spend on the vaccine...
...whole, the U.S. medical community seems to favor approving the vaccine. Even in healthy children, chicken pox can weaken the body so that it is susceptible to more hazardous bacterial infections. By warding off chicken pox, the vaccine could prevent secondary complications. In addition, 10 years' worth of data in the U.S. suggest that the vaccine could reduce the incidence of shingles. If the CDC decides that these advantages outweigh the possible risks, getting itchy scabs all over the body may no longer be a rite of childhood...
...Chicken Pox: Should kids be vaccinated...