Word: cure
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...total con. This turbaned guru-of-sorts also told me that my only health problems would involve my digestive tract; three weeks later I was hospitalized for paratyphoid fever, also known as intestinal salmonella. So we'll suspend our skepticism for him, even though he tried to hawk his cure for AIDS to my physician mother so she could market it in the United States...
This may be one of the cases in which the cure is worse than the disease. Aside from the obvious problem no combination, no tinkle--a myriad of other inconveniences come to mind. For instance, it generally takes two hands to open a door combination lock-better make sure that towel is tied tightly around your waist. And what happens if another massive first-year food poisoning epidemic strikes Harvard? The potential chaos is inconceivable. So, in the public interest, we would like to suggest alternate solutions...
...liners. "Dorine, shut the fuck up!" is not really funny by itself. Injected into a 322-year-old text, it is hysterical. But it is also cheap. Auletta's changes are so self-conscious that Dorine, while discussing her mistress's illness and the use of leeches to cure it, comments to the audience how odd it is that they are making all these modern references and have no idea what modern medicine is. Why didn't Auletta just change Moliere's references to leeches, too? Because he wanted to wave to the audience, and yell, "Hey, I'm here...
...deadly disease after eating meat from a dead chimpanzee found in the jungle. The World Health Organization has a team investigating the area, and the Gabonian goverment is trying to educate the population about the disease. Their efforts may be in vain, however. The Ebola virus has no cure, and painfully kills 80 to 90 percent of its victims, causing massive bleeding, liquifying their internal tissues. Ebola is only spread by transfer of blood and bodily fluids, which works in tandem with the virus' exceptionally high fatality rate to keep the disease from killing far more efficiently. "The outbreak itself...
...perhaps the first time, American society in all its complexity is shifting its habits not because of the political or economic realities of the modern world, but rather because the way we behave has suddenly imposed a very real and immediate threat upon our lives. Even if a cure for HIV were developed tomorrow, in my mind sex and romance will always be inextricably tied to the need for caution and restraint, due to ravages of a disease that is younger than...