Word: chronical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Civil wars and chronic conflicts bedevil the world from Burundi to Northern Ireland to the Middle East and Viet Nam. But one civil war that has recently been settled was the 17-year struggle in Sudan between the 4,000,000 blacks of the south and the 11 million northerners, mostly Arabs. Three months ago, the leaders of the two sides-Major General Jaafar Numeiry, President of the Sudan, and Major General Joseph Lagu, commander of the southern guerrillas-met in Addis Ababa, capital of neighboring Ethiopia, and signed a compromise settlement negotiated with the help of U.N. refugee organizations...
...them with a grotesque disregard for the environment in now vanishing beauty spots like Portovenere. Some 4,000 miles of the country's shore line is permanently fouled by oil slicks and industrial wastes from 140,000 coastal factories. Inland, the dumping of industrial wastes has become so chronic that Milanese rice, once the staple of every decent risotto, grows poorly if at all on hundreds of thousands of once fertile acres. Cities that were built for walking and carriages are now, like Rome or Taranto, choked with Fiats. Traditional patterns of circulation die as the arcades vanish...
Most people suffer from headaches at some time in their lives. Once doctors were in the habit of dismissing patients who came to them complaining of headaches as chronic crybabies, offering them little more than consolation and aspirin. Now physicians are taking headaches seriously. Headache units for both clinical work and research have been established at several major hospitals. Their work has led to better-but far from complete-understanding of man's ancient affliction...
Headaches, doctors realize, are symptoms rather than diseases. Toothaches, hangovers and simple hunger can cause headaches that can be cured by dental work, black coffee and food. Chronic pain is occasionally a sign of a very serious problem, like brain tumors, and can require surgery. Decongestants may help sinus headaches, while those caused by allergies can be prevented by identifying and avoiding the substance that brings on the allergic reaction, a task that most physicians concede is far easier in theory than in practice...
Physicians in ancient times attempted to treat chronic headaches with remedies that owed more to folklore than pharmacopoeia. Some believed in trepanning, or opening the skull, to let out the attacking demons. Others prescribed elixirs of cow's brain and goat dung. American Indians used beaver testes, a sounder idea than it seems. The preparation has since been deter mined to contain a salicylate similar to regular aspirin...