Word: ills
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Russian commanders have, in fact, learned nothing at all since the first Chechnya war. Officers and NCOs who took part in battles last month against Chechen rebels in western Dagestan described their own commanders as corrupt, ill-organized and incompetent. Sources close to the Spetsnaz, the best-trained and most combat-experienced soldiers, say they lost officers to misdirected Russian "precision bombings" in Dagestan. They also speak of corrupt commanders who allowed Chechen leader Basayev to buy his way out of Dagestan after a failed offensive, and of helicopter-gunship crews who were bribed by the Chechens to hit empty...
...health is the problem of longevity, women living into their 90s, men to their 80s," says cosmetic-dermatologic surgeon Dr. Edward Lack, a board member of the American Academy of Cosmetic Surgery. Most of the 45-to-70-year-old laser-surgery patients Lack sees in his Des Plaines, Ill., office are seeking facial resurfacing, a laser procedure that can erase fine lines, sunspots and broken vessels while tightening the skin--all at once...
...tend to think that our consumer capitalist culture creates psychological ill health," Sarah Conn says. " It's bad to treat any group, particularly kids, as a market only...
...real issue is not how to make group health plans pay more, but how to keep Americans from getting critically ill in the first place," Bloom writes in an Oct. 11 piece titled, "The Wrong Rights." He addresses the problems behind the nation's top killers: heart disease, cancer, stroke and injuries...
...from the U.S. and the European Union to hand over Mladen "Tuta" Naletilic for trial at the International Tribunal in the Hague, on charges of ethnic cleansing against Muslims in the town of Mostar in 1993. But the Croats have been dragging their feet, claiming that Naletilic is too ill to stand trial and charging him with lesser offenses in a Croatian court in order to jam up the legal process. "Sakic symbolizes a past era, but ?Tuta? is very much alive and would probably have some very interesting things to tell the Hague Tribunal about Tudjman and some...