Word: health
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...study found that several of the reasons usually offered for the racial gap do not account for the difference. Three common theories are that more black patients do not want transplants, that fewer black patients have private health insurance and that more black patients have fatal diseases that make transplants unnecessary...
...filled with pictures of his younger days as an Army journalist in Vietnam and as a newspaper reporter, probably to erase his image as someone who was born in a blue suit with a briefcase in his hand. But listen to the end of an otherwise routine commercial on health care: "Change that works for working families." Now subject that phrase to political parsing: "Change"--I'm not Bill Clinton--"that works"--I'm not a wild-eyed liberal like Bradley--"for working families"--I'm for you, the tax-paying middle class, the folks Clinton brought back...
...that any direct threat to health from genetically modified foods has been found, except by a lone British researcher who claimed--somewhat dubiously--that g.m. potatoes damaged his lab rats. On the contrary, as scientists told the FDA, genetically modified foods could carry clear health benefits, such as delivering more nutrients, reducing spoilage and curtailing chemical contamination. Besides, natural doesn't always mean good: cassava, for example, can be toxic if not properly prepared...
...opening pages of Disgrace, which has just won Britain's prestigious Booker Prize, David Lurie, a white professor of communications, assesses his life: "He is in good health, his mind is clear... He lives within his income, within his temperament, within his emotional means. Is he happy? By most measurements, yes, he believes he is." And then comes the first crack in the wall of his self-satisfaction: "However, he has not forgotten the last chorus of Oedipus: Call no man happy until he is dead...
...past century, sorting out which things can be done and which should not be. Our fate will depend on what we do of our own free will. What can we do to raise the standard of living in the U.S.? And what can we do about human rights, health care, education and a cleaner environment? Genuine change does not come from the government. Real change begins with ourselves. RICHARD D. MCKENNEY Lynn, Mass...