Word: contacts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Hans Hogerzeil, of the WHO's Action Program on Essential Drugs, says the problem is widespread: 45% of donations received in 1994 by the WHO office in Zagreb, for instance, were either worthless or expired. In Sudan aid workers have received contact-lens solution and appetite stimulants--a bizarre contribution to a country experiencing famine. Health workers in Rwanda are still sorting through crates of "odorless" garlic pills, ginseng extract and Tums antacids delivered during the war. A WHO pharmacist working in the Balkans says, "Staff members have risked their lives under sniper fire trying to identify medications that turn...
...North Korea would bravely take the risk of a full-scale war would, in a large sense, depend upon China's attitude. It is definitely true that China, being North Korea's long-standing ally, one last good-will supporter, and the only channel through which North Korea maintains contact with the outside world, has had a huge, if not dominating, impact on North Korea's policy-making. When the growth-oriented Chinese leaders helped South Korea obtain its separate seat in the United Nations in 1991, something which could have been a reason enough to provoke another serious dispute...
...months he was hospitalized for several weeks after suffering an allergic reaction to a drug. During that time, his parents were not allowed to hold or hug him. When he came home, they found him listless and withdrawn. In light of that early denial of human contact, investigators are intrigued by the fact that one of the Unabomber's early targets was James McConnell, a professor of psychology at the University of Michigan who eventually became well known for researching the benefits of sensory deprivation for autistic children...
Investigators were told that in childhood Ted seemed to avoid human contact. As their firstborn sulked through grade school, his parents suspected that he might be unhappy because he was so much brighter than his peers. In those years "he was a discipline problem," admits Robert Rippey, a retired math teacher at Evergreen Park High School who remembers Ted fondly as one of his brightest students. "He drove his teachers up the wall. So in high school we had to figure something out." What his parents and school officials arrived at was the accelerated curriculum that allowed him to skip...
...cared greatly for his students and nothing for material things. If he ever had a proper winter coat, no one seems to have seen it. When guests came to his apartment, he served them soft drinks in jelly jars. But unlike Ted, David demonstrated a gift for human contact. Though not much of an athlete, he joined the other high school faculty for Thursday-night basketball games. "You could talk to Dave about anything," says Jim West, a junior high math teacher. "We used to kid him about being so smart, and he'd say his brother was so much...