Word: chronicic
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...When Suu Kyi does walk through her sky blue metal gate, Burma's ailments won't be magically healed. Most are chronic and beyond the scope of one woman?even an icon like Suu Kyi?to cure. The country is devoid of the institutions needed to build a civil society: a democratic legislature, a functioning bureaucracy and education and health systems, an independent judiciary, a free press. But Suu Kyi stands at the very least as a symbol of hope. In the markets, tea shops and offices of the crumbling capital, Rangoon, the whispered conversations about politics now contain wisps...
...circuit. "I like doing things by myself," he tells me. He speaks sincerely of his commitment to learning the acting craft. He reminisces tenderly about the birth of his daughter, whom he describes as being "wrapped up like a burrito." He confesses to me that he suffers from a chronic Dunkin' Donuts addiction...
...over some, having actually seen a few myself. When I was young, my family attended religious services run by a woman named Grace, a brassy Italian-American lady whose ministry was based around her ability to (brace yourselves, my science-concentrating friends) heal people of various illnesses, ranging from chronic arthritis to cancer. She would pluck sufferers from the crowd, name their ailments, touch them—and they would fall over and lie twitching on the carpeted floor of whatever Connecticut high school auditorium her constantly cash-strapped organization had rented out that night. Sometimes they spoke in tongues...
...name with the face—Krinsky, with an air of genuine relief, exclaimed, “At least it wasn’t herpes. Who even really knows what syphilis is?” Good point. (Word of the Day—Syphilis: “A chronic infectious disease caused by a spirochete progressing through three stages characterized respectively by local formation of chancres, ulcerous skin eruptions, and systemic infection leading to general paresis,” according to Dictionary.com...
...Whether or not it changes your life or heals a chronic illness, Ayurveda offers a pleasurable glimpse of Sri Lanka's living history and culture. And, for the record, I haven't had a migraine since I left...