Word: health
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...prevent illness, then tries to treat it if it comes. It's exactly the same as what you try to do as a politician, but with regard to society." Which may help explain why this physician offers such a radical prescription for running a country and restoring its health, and why last week's national elections, in which her Labor Party dropped 6.5%, stirred such interest...
...Council improved various aspects of the University Health Services, including the structure for students to submit complaints...
...results of the development have been chaotic and in some cases tragic. Machadinho, for instance, was supposed to be a model settlement village with gravel roads, schools and health clinics. But when a surge of migrants traveled down BR-364 to Machadinho in 1985, orderly development became a pell- mell land grab. Settlers encountered the familiar scourges of the rain forest: poor soil and inescapable mosquito-borne disease. Decio Fujizaki, a settler who came west four years ago, has just contracted malaria for the umpteenth time. Says he: "I always wanted my own plot of land. If only it wasn...
McAfee's situation has revived a smoldering controversy over whether health- care providers should help the disabled commit suicide. In July a paraplegic in Michigan successfully petitioned a court to have his respirator turned off. Some officials denounced that action, saying it set a dangerous example for the handicapped by encouraging them to end their lives rather than strive for a meaningful existence. In McAfee's case, Judge Johnson has exonerated anyone who helps the patient carry out his plan. John Banja, a professor of medical ethics at Emory University, notes that hospitals have no clear mandate for "treatment discontinuance...
Meanwhile, organizers of the largestintroductory course--Social Analysis 10--areinstituting a "number of dramatic changes" tobetter meet student needs, says AssistantProfessor of Economics Douglas W. Elmendorf. Hesays the course will incorporate four newtopics--the environment, economics of health care,poverty and protectionism...