Word: doctor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...networked. Handbags from Italy and designer shoes from Hong Kong are available to Web surfers throughout cyberspace; clerical work or software programming can be outsourced from anywhere to workers in Omaha or Bangalore; and the illness of a child in Bali can be diagnosed by a doctor in Bangor...
...doctor suggested surgery. Grove continued reading. "If this wasn't your life here," his wife said to him one morning as he pored over charts, "I'd say you were having fun." Well, Grove was kind of having fun--his scientific mind was engaged by the prostate-cancer research. A second doctor offered another opinion: radiation-seed therapy. Grove kept reading. "You know," says Eva, "I was surprised by how he reacted to the disease. Normally he's a baby. Anytime someone has a headache, he's saying, 'Oh, it's cancer.' But this time it really was cancer...
...Martin Scorsese's remarkable new film, Kundun, both of which tell the story of his early life. Sitting cross-legged in his armchair, rocking back and forth as he spoke and always keeping an eye out to make sure my cup of tea was full, the famously accessible doctor of metaphysics talked with full-bodied candor, for day after day, about his death, the increasingly public divisions within the Tibetan community and the new pressures of his spotlighted life. Accepting donations from Shoko Asahara, the head of the Aum Shinrikyo group in Japan that later allegedly planted deadly sarin...
Eleven days before the election, the President is accused of sexual dalliance with a visitor to the Oval Office--an underage visitor, at that. What's needed, the spin doctor (a coolly cynical Robert De Niro) decrees, is a splendid little war to divert the populace. None being handy, one will have to be invented out of rumor and falsified electronic imagery...
SHAKY DEFIBRILLATORS Warning. Because of a software error, the implantable defibrillator Ventak AV may make the heart race. The device needn't be removed but should be adjusted by a doctor...