Word: chronical
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Cheap, unsubstantive attacks on the easily-attackable U.C. accomplish little except fulfilling the aforementioned need for universal objects of ridicule. The rise of Ross Perot shows that seemingly chronic whiners, fed up with "government," can and will, given the opportunity, vigorously dedicate themselves to creating a better system...
...CHRONIC ACUTE ANXIETIES ABOUT SEX, VIOLENCE and contamination are bizarre and debilitating. Sufferers of so-called obsessive-compulsive disorder -- about 2% of populations worldwide -- constantly repeat such simple actions as washing their hands, manically checking doors and stoves, and hoarding newspapers. Scientists who have long suspected that a key problem is a malfunction in the brain's circuitry now have strong evidence to support that idea. According to researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles, successful behavior- modification therapy and drug treatment both have a marked effect on a central region of the brain that governs the learning...
...scene of destruction. Once healing is under way, the signals subside so the vessels lose their stickiness and inflammation recedes. But in a disease like arthritis, the chemical signal is always present. Vessels remain sticky, and repair cells pile up, causing pain, swelling and other symptoms of chronic inflammation...
...nation that has lost many of its defining ideas about itself. The cold war's end gave Americans only a kind of abstract triumph -- and left a void. The collapse of communism and the Soviet empire suddenly removed the dark moral counterweight by which Americans measured their own virtue. Chronic recession, the rise of Japanese and European economic competitors, the vast inflow of immigrants from non-European sources (strangers to the older American tradition), the shrinking of the buffering Atlantic and Pacific oceans (jet travel, satellites, global distribution of goods), all these have eaten away at the long American smugness...
...wasn't exhaustion from grappling with opposing forwards that finally caused Larry Bird, 35, to retire from basketball. Rather, it was the strain of stuffing all 6 ft. 9 in. of himself into airline seats and team buses every night. Citing chronic back pain, the National Basketball Association's 11th- leading all-time scorer and three-time Most Valuable Player has called it quits. "I'm excited to be going to a new life," said Bird, who will move to the Boston Celtics' front office. "But I'm going to miss this life." Celtics' fans were in mourning; during...