Word: health
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...founded Standard Oil and created one of America's largest fortunes, John Davison Rockefeller 3rd always tried to stay in the background. While his brothers pursued more public careers, he devoted himself full time to the family's philanthropies, which annually donate millions to promote social welfare, health care, the arts and education around the world...
Among all the innocent bystanders caught in the Rhodesian conflict, however, none face a more agonizing dilemma than Rhodesia's Christian missionaries, who for years have provided education and health care to blacks. Their stations, schools and orphanages have become targets of suspicion for both the army and the nationalist guerrillas. The missions face a problem if they do not report local guerrilla movements to the government and a problem if they do. In the past two years, 25 missionaries have been deported, accused of aiding the rebels. Last month 13 men, women and children at the British Pentecostal...
...therapeutic messiah who will lead the mentally disturbed out of the desert." Writer Valerie Andrews, in her forthcoming book, The Psychic Power of Running, argues that weekend jogging clinics "could well be the basis for the nation's first grass-roots movement in community mental health...
Brightman attacked the alleged sterilization of Indian women, against their will, by doctors in the Indian health services. Brightman said he may bring a $300-million class-action law suit against the head of the Indian Health Services...
...Public health experts say that NGU is increasing at an epidemic rate, far faster than gonorrhea. It is now the most common sexually transmitted disease in developed countries. Though the true incidence of NGU is unknown in the U.S., in part because physicians here are not required to report cases, the Center for Disease Control estimates that between 4 million and 9 million Americans are afflicted. NGU is noted most often in young, single, sexually active whites from the middle and upper classes. Says Dr. William McCormack of Harvard Medical School: "Almost all of the urethritis that is seen...