Word: doctorings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...between ethnic Armenians and ethnic Azerbaijanis that left 32 dead and 400 wounded in the Azerbaijani port city of Sumgait last February. Struggling to hold back tears, an aging Armenian woman described how she had watched an Azerbaijani mob burn a man to death in his automobile. A Russian doctor described the head < wounds he had found on the corpse of a man beaten to death with lead pipes...
...also discovers that her love for the great apes was matched by her contempt for the Rwandan people. In the Central African Republic he encounters people who wonder why the West makes such a fuss about eating human flesh. Visiting his first AIDS clinic, he is greeted by a doctor visibly wasting away with the disease he is supposed to treat...
...state's 530 nonfederal health-care facilities, has been especially hard hit. Sixty-three hospitals have had to close in the past five years, 34 of them in rural areas. Now 49 of Texas' 254 counties are without a hospital; at least 13 do not even have a doctor. Referring to the loss of the recently shuttered Bastrop hospital, outside Austin, board member Susan Cartelli groans, "Now Friday- night football games at the high school can be a nightmare...
...that's what it is!" I exclaimed without thinking. "My father asked me today whether I was a doctor. I couldn't understand it, and told him that three years ago I defended my master's thesis and explained the difference between a master's and doctor's degree. It's clear now how that question came up. This was a pure fabrication...
They are blamed for the failures of American schools, accused of incompetence and expected to fill in for negligent parents, and they work under conditions few professionals would tolerate. "We are the mother, the teacher, the nurse, the doctor," says one classroom veteran. Still, many say the modern schoolhouse is a place not only of fears and frustrations but also of startling epiphanies and sublime rewards...