Word: dubliners
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Saunders did not invent the hospice. The Greeks probably originated the concept of a place to go to die before 1000 B.C. It has its modern roots in a home for the dying opened in Dublin in the late 19th century by an associate of Florence Nightingale's. Not long after, the Sisters of Charity opened a similar home in London. It was largely at that home, in the 1950s and 1960s, that Dame Cicely developed her ideas for a modern hospice that would bring physical and spiritual peace in the face of death. The end of life "can turn...
...choices, eight more bombs exploded in Belfast and Londonderry, injuring one policemen. The blasts followed the return of I.R.A. Leader Robert Russell from the Republic of Ireland to Northern Ireland under a recent extradition treaty. Russell escaped from a Northern Ireland prison in 1983 and was arrested in Dublin a year later...
...easier for Britain to bring accused I.R.A. terrorists to trial in British courts. In the Portlaoise case, the judge, claiming that Britain had failed to identify the suspect formally, refused to extradite Patrick McVeigh, who is accused of complicity in four London bombings between 1981 and 1983. Officials in Dublin promised to appeal the Portlaoise ruling. McVeigh, who was released after serving five years in an Irish prison for firearms violations, went into hiding...
...broadcasts for CBS News. "Anything that we sell for overseas is just gravy." An increase in the number of communications satellites and the relaxation of strict state regulation of TV in many countries have encouraged the growth of new broadcast and cable channels. ABC has signed a deal with Dublin-based Anglo-Vision to distribute its news shows to hotels in 17 European countries. And the television version of USA Today, set to make its debut in September, has already been sold to broadcasters in Australia, the Philippines and Argentina...
Born in New York City and graduated from outdoorsy Dublin School in New Hampshire ("We did a lot of woodcutting"), Kennedy entered Harvard to study English literature. But he switched to biology and stayed on for a Ph.D., meanwhile coaching the Harvard ski team. In contrast to today's microbiologists, Kennedy says, he took the old-fashioned "butterfly route" in biology. He nonetheless rocketed up the academic ladder at Syracuse and | then Stanford, where he became provost in 1979. En route he detoured to Washington, first as a science adviser to Gerald Ford, then as Food and Drug Administration commissioner...