Word: fatalities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...much knowledge and choice can be chaotic and dangerous. School curriculums have been adapted to teach about new topics: AIDS, ADOLESCENT SUICIDE, DRUG AND ALCOHOL ABUSE, INCEST. Trust is the child's natural inclination, but the world has become untrustworthy. The hazards of the adult world, its sometimes fatal temptations, descend upon children so early that the ideal of childhood is demolished...
Then, in 1951, the year Michael graduated from high school, his brother, already in college, suffered some fatal wound to that self-confidence the Dukakis-Boukis marriage was meant to instill. Stelian attempted suicide, and was committed to mental care. He lived on, erratically, for 22 more years, haunting the outskirts of his brother's career, organizing with him in the heady days of the C.O.D., winning his own term on the town-meeting committee, then changing party, competing for the votes of his parents (who had to change their registration to Republican when Stelian was on that ticket), trying...
...more able to recognize AIDS symptoms than those of the chicken pox, and Hoffman's title, At Risk, is less than subtle. But the injustice that an 11 year-old who had a blood transfusion five years earlier, before blood donors were screened for AIDS, could contract this fatal disease hits home, and because we know Amanda so well, we feel as though a close friend is a victim of the disease...
...Medicine and Physiology. He chaired the Biochemistry Department from 1968 to 1971, and retired from Harvard in 1982. From 1966-69, he chaired the biochemistry section of the National Academy of Sciences. He said his work has aided in the development of a compound that cures sleeping sickness, a fatal disease found most commonly in Africa...
...have taken themselves out of the running. While Democrats seem to be content to take Nunn at his word, visions of a Bradley draft now excite Democrats almost as much as a Mario scenario did several months ago, though some think two Northeasterners on the ticket could be a fatal liability. Jesse Jackson is nominally on the list, largely because he has demanded to be there and has enough clout that he must be. Jackson is the only would-be to get star treatment. While the others interviewed were lucky to get a cup of coffee, Jackson was treated...