Word: darkeness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...take medication. And yet for a variety of reasons, medical science is ill equipped to deal with pain. While the 20th century has brought remarkable advances in the treatment and in some cases the elimination of disease, doctors' understanding of pain is just beginning to emerge from the dark ages. "Pain is the weak link in modern medicine," says Dr. Josef Wang, director of the pain center at the Mayo Clinic. To begin with, medical students receive only the scantest introduction to the subject. A 1983 survey by Bonica of 17 standard textbooks on surgery, medicine and cancer found...
Maddalena, Jean Rigby has a come-hither catch in her dark mezzo. Conducted by the ENO's impressive music director Mark Elder, 37, Rigoletto is a triumph...
...Boston banker-to-be, who hopes to return to the Harvard bench again next year as the goalie coach, the only dark spot on an otherwise superlative record is a 12-0 embarassing loss in the finals of this year's Beanpot...
...nothing more to be written. But there is more there is the conclusion, reached without discussion, that Harvard should be destroyed for its sins. As we picketed in front of Burr Hall on the sunny spring morning after the Bust, an aged member of the Harvard Corporation, a dark hat shielding his face from the heavy sun, stormed and raged at us, demanded that we consider what we were doing asked whether we wanted to destroy Harvard University. No reason occurred to me why Harvard should not be destroyed. Harvard's only use was as a forum for our protest...
...only does he admit to using narcotics, but he says he has made special trips to the dark, uncivilized regions of the Amazon to find them...