Word: facedness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Both Virchow and Lister faced not only opposition but scorn until the medical mandarins of the day were finally brought around to admitting the truths on which the scientists' work was based. Lister, in particular, was ridiculed or ignored by his fellow surgeons, who refused to acknowledge the marvels he...
The pain-treatment service came about because Berde and colleague Navil Sethna, faced with patients who had seemingly intractable problems, devised novel solutions, and because other doctors began to seek them out. One of their first cases was an 18-year-old boy with cancer. Suddenly, the boy's pain...
Late this past summer, the New York Police Department was devastated by charges of sickening brutality. Abner Louima, a Haitian immigrant, was sexually assaulted while in the custody of two officers. This outrage comes at a time when crime rates in New York have been plummeting and the credit has...
But can time really be divided into neatly defined decades? More likely it is for historical neatness's sake that we stuff trends into boxes, like books shelved by the Dewey decimal system, so that we can comprehend the world and categorize its contents. And yet Dylan's career divides...
DIED. RED SKELTON, 84, rubber-faced, gentle-hearted clown who always seemed one laugh short of tears; in Rancho Mirage, Calif. His father, a clown, died before his birth--a mixed inheritance that sent him tumbling from carnival to walkabout, perfecting lugubrious pantomimes and uproarious pratfalls. He landed in such...