Word: ills
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Education is almost as ill-served. Leon Brave Heart, like an estimated 50% of the tribe, had an alcohol problem; it caused him to drop out of school. But when his father died of cirrhosis of the liver and his mother was killed in a car crash, he dried out and returned to school. In San Francisco, he joined the Job Corps, specializing in cooking and culinary studies. Now the 22-year-old works at a tiny convenience store on the reservation while caring for 10 extended-family members who share a shack and a trailer. Brave Heart wants...
...only clear lesson to come out of the U.N. women's conference in Beijing is that China is run by a band of ill- mannered male chauvinist control freaks. The major U.S. news outlets have dwelt, with morbid fascination, on the abuses of women in China, from forced sterilization to the strong-arm tactics of the Chinese police. This is valuable information, especially for the one-quarter of the world's women who are Chinese. But did 40,000 women have to travel to Beijing just to confirm what one man, Harry Wu, more or less established a couple...
...Rockefeller Center, and, in the process, divesting the Rockefeller family -- which owns 20 percent of the center -- of its remaining ties to the landmark. Mitsubishi will transfer title to Rockefeller Center Properties Inc., the trust that holds the $1.3 billion mortgage. The Mitsubishi decision is the latest of several ill-fated high profile real estate purchases by the Japanese, including the purchases of the Pebble Beach Golf Course in California, the MCA studios in Hollywood, and several commercial properties in Hawaii. "These investments are classic real estate micalculations," says Moody. "They bought high and had to sell low. This...
...Michigan judge ordered right-to-die advocate Jack Kevorkian to stand trial for assisting in the 1991 suicides of two chronically ill women; however, he cannot be tried for murder, the judge ruled, because it cannot be proved that Kevorkian actually started up the devices that killed the women. (The state supreme court ruled last year that assisting suicide could be a common-law crime...
Some hospitals have begun to expect more of their surgeons. Last year Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York City opened a new center for the evaluation of surgical innovation. "With life-threatening illnesses, the pressures are great to try new things," says Annetine Gelijns, the center's director. Her team tries to resist those pressures long enough to consider some tough issues--such as whether there are ways to evaluate new operations that would be faster than the slow but sure process of a scientifically controlled study. For desperately ill patients and the trailblazing doctors who believe they have...