Word: feverishness
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...vacation came to an abrupt end when Kelly became feverish and began hallucinating. Despite intensive care at three different hospitals and the best efforts of doctors to figure out what was wrong, she kept getting worse. She had muscle spasms, salivated uncontrollably and suffered bouts of terror. She recoiled from her mother and father and even her own hair. During one lucid moment the little girl told her parents, "I'm sorry, I know I shouldn't be afraid of you, but I can't help it." On July 11, three days before her 12th birthday, she died with doctors...
Even the automakers themselves are surprised -- and unprepared. As GM shutters eight plants, a feverish demand for light trucks threatens to outstrip the company's capacity to build them. Robert Rewey, vice president for Ford's sales operations, just raised his estimate of industry sales for the third time this year. "We're still trying to assess what's going on here," Rewey says. "While there is still a lot of uncertainty surrounding the economy, we don't think this is a fluke. We're happy to be back and selling autos...
...quests have been as feverish as the search for alternative sources of taxol, the anticancer drug derived from yew trees. So far, the best candidates have not made an impact on the price tag. A single treatment cycle costs nearly $1,000 and may have to be repeated 10 times. Researchers from Montana report in Science that they have found the answer: a lowly tree fungus that produces the cancer-fighting chemical in minute quantities. If scientists can figure out how to boost the output, they should be able to create fermentation vats brimming with relatively inexpensive taxol...
...team of Clinton & Clinton sure seems to be trying. With concerns about medical costs reaching feverish heights, prescription prices have become the first major target of health-care reformers' wrath. The President last month blasted the price of prescription drugs as "shocking" and blamed vaccinemakers for pursuing "profits at the expense of our children." His remarks came a day after Hillary Rodham Clinton denounced the cost of childhood vaccines -- which have risen 1,000% in a decade -- and suggested that drugmakers would oppose the Administration's forthcoming health-care reforms. The industry's earnings also came under attack; Democratic Congressman...
Middle-class, full-time motherhood is too often imbued with martyrdom and angst-ridden soul searching, usually a feverish attempt to justify the retreat to domesticity. This retreat may be facilitated by the fact that women do face particular problems in the corporate world...