Word: colonization
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...late 1999, two months after an operation for colon cancer, Presbyterian Rev. Kim Dong Sik moved from South Korea to China's northeast to help children who have fled from North Korea. Passionate about his work, Kim set up a small mission house and nursery school for orphaned and handicapped refugees that he called "The School of Love." Despite his severe health problems, the pastor helped a group of North Korean defectors make their way from China to South Korea. On the afternoon of Jan. 16, 2000, he went to a Korean-barbecue restaurant in the Chinese town of Yanji...
...power of endings has been demonstrated in some remarkable experiments by Kahneman. One such study involved people undergoing a colonoscopy, an uncomfortable procedure in which a flexible scope is moved through the colon. While a control group had the standard procedure, half the subjects endured an extra 60 seconds during which the scope was held stationary; movement of the scope is typically the source of the discomfort. It turned out that members of the group that had the somewhat longer procedure with a benign ending found it less unpleasant than the control group, and they were more willing to have...
DIED. HOWARD KEEL, 85, beefy baritone who played opposite Betty Hutton, Doris Day and Jane Powell in such premier 1950s Hollywood musicals as Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Show Boat and Kiss Me Kate; of colon cancer; in Palm Desert, Calif. Keel rocketed to stardom as sharpshooter Frank Butler in Annie Get Your Gun, the first of a string of musicals he made for MGM. In the 1980s he revived his career on TV's Dallas as Clayton Farlow, the debonair tycoon who romanced matriarch Miss Ellie and confounded...
Defeat is something Zucker--who was a high-ranked junior tennis player and has twice beaten colon cancer--isn't used to. Ever since he embraced hard news and used stunts like outdoor concerts to turn Today into NBC's gold mine, Zucker has been the network's golden boy. From the time he got his start, doing advance research for NBC's coverage of the 1988 Seoul Olympics, "Jeff was tireless and energetic," says his boss Bob Wright. "In his kind of work, you have to anticipate everything and be willing to change on a dime. Jeff has that...
...continued to show troubling indications. The final straw was a piece of research that Merck conducted. It was a particularly careful study--a randomized, double-blind trial of 2,600 patients, comparing Vioxx with a placebo--designed to determine whether Vioxx might prevent the formation of polyps in the colon. The study was scheduled to last three years, but two weeks ago, the panel of doctors and statisticians that was monitoring the trial's safety data informed Merck that the evidence of cardiovascular problems in the subjects taking Vioxx was clear--so clear that the trial should be halted immediately...