Word: equips
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...governments assume that people need to understand Islam in its purest form to stay religiously moderate. The result is the mass production of true believers, not good citizens. Because people initially welcome the imposed piety but then gradually realize it doesn't equip them to meet the challenges of getting through life, life becomes a morbid burden. To shake off this burden, some of them, usually young men, can't wait for natural death and decide instead to take a short cut to heaven...
...then, the relationship between him and the facility was poisoned--and not only because Yoder never cooperated with treatment. Equip for Equality, a Chicago-based nonprofit for the disabled, has twice accused Chester of making false entries in Yoder's records; Chester staff allegedly lied in the 1999 reports by saying Yoder had called an Equip for Equality office and threatened violence. At the time, Chester director Hardy stood by the first report. He never responded to the second and now says he doesn't recall the incident...
Bullied, annoyed--or frightened. Most folks wouldn't appreciate Yoder's insistent calls; he can rant if he doesn't get quick action. Chester now prohibits Yoder from calling at least a dozen people who have complained about his phone manners. Even Equip for Equality, the nonprofit that accused Chester of writing spurious reports on Yoder, reluctantly told the facility earlier this year that Yoder had begun making inappropriate calls. Group officials say he left a message in January in which he promised to "f___ you up the ass in the newspapers" for not fighting hard enough...
...vulgar way, Yoder actually had a point. Although it is a large, federally funded organization designed to monitor institutions like Chester, Equip for Equality has never investigated the facility--even after it discovered those allegedly false reports. For years, some patients' advocates have complained that Chester provides inadequate care. Just in the past year, a state commission has substantiated charges that Chester has improperly confiscated patients' property, denied their privacy and failed to keep one patient from spreading his feces around a bathroom until Chester's human-rights committee got involved. "We've had longstanding, very serious concerns about Chester...
...Playing on these yearnings, Sony is now working on the SDR-4X, a gnome-sized humanoid bot that can sing, dance, kick a ball?and chat. The company plans to equip the device with a 60,000-word vocabulary and the ability to recognize 10 human faces and voices. The SDR-4X could hit the market as early as next year, but it will cost a good chunk of an annual salary. Sony doesn't expect to sell many. The SDR-4X "is a symbolic product," Amagai concedes...