Word: fates
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...suspects that in Benny's case, patient and doctors failed to understand one another's priorities. Perhaps the boy felt his pain was not being taken seriously enough. Perhaps the medical team misread the young man's growing determination to choose his own fate. "Often when problems like this arise, there's a miasma of suspicion about families and how trustworthy they are," says James Nelson, a medical ethicist at the Hastings Center in New York. Someone from the Pittsburgh team decided to call the child-abuse hot line in Florida to try to force Benny to renew treatment...
These network-owned channels have been guaranteed carriage in major markets; the fate of other cable newcomers has been much different. In April, Ted Turner launched Turner Classic Movies, which offers many vintage, long-unseen films from Turner's MGM and Warner Bros. archives. Cable systems serving only 250,000 homes were persuaded to sign up. Horizons Cable Network, a pbs-backed channel that plans to cover lectures, panel discussions and other educational and cultural events, had hoped to debut later this year, but it was forced to ! delay the launch after cable systems representing 6 million homes, citing rate...
...happens in a bad dream, both Goodwins are nearly paralyzed by their terrible fate; Alice sleeps 20 hours a day. And there is another similarity to the skewed reality of nightmares. At the edges of the reader's field of vision, backdrops are unpainted and sets only sketchily built. There is no strong sense of sheltering farm, disapproving town or world beyond the Goodwins' tragedy, and this intensifies the reader's unease because there is no broader reality to which to escape...
...move in during the 1950s. This may explain why ancient species still survive. But now hunters' snares indiscriminately kill anything they trap, including endangered animals such as the tiger and sun bear. Human pressures have reduced the elephant population to as few as five animals, and the same fate could befall the species just uncovered. MacKinnon, disturbed by the connotations of the name slow-running deer, is worried that this animal may become extinct even before it is scientifically described...
Jerome Brown had been driving without a license for two years, police say, before fate caught up with him. On May 28 he lost control of his girlfriend's 1989 station wagon while driving on a curvy road in Salisbury, Maryland. The skidding car hit a mailbox and a telephone pole before wrapping itself around a tree. Brown's girlfriend was killed instantly. His 14-year-old daughter died a few minutes later. Brown, 41, who was seriously injured, was allegedly driving drunk. He shouldn't have been on the road in any condition -- his license had been suspended...