Word: ills
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...leader, the mysterious Subcomandante Marcos. Hours earlier, the governor of troubled Chiapas resigned after two months in office, bowing to rebel calls for his resignation -- a move that Buchanan says is inconceivable without orders from Zedillo's highly-centralized national government. The president's about-face comes after an ill-fated weekend effort to hunt down Zapatista leaders, who represent poor Mayan peasants, amid international stock market jitters over the rebellion's growing political impact. "The hunt for Marcos was taking too long," Buchanan says. "The government thought that they could do away with the Zapatista movement in 72 hours...
Averaging 18 points, five rebounds and four assists a game, Hill certainly has All-Star talent, but the fans were responding to more than the stat sheet. Basketball has become ever more raucous and ill-mannered in recent years, and the fans want relief from selfish, trash-talking stars like the Phoenix Suns' Charles Barkley, who earlier this season announced that were it not for him, his fellow Suns would be decent players on bad teams...
...another case testing the murky limits of both parents' rights and a patient's right to die, Gregory Messenger-the Michigan father charged with manslaughter for having unhooked his severely ill, premature baby from a respirator-was acquitted by a jury. Messenger said he was forced to act after doctors refused to heed the family's wishes. "We did what was best for our baby," said his wife...
...another case testing the murky limits of parents' rights and a patient's right to die, Gregory Messenger--the Michigan father charged with manslaughter for having unhooked his severely ill, premature baby from a respirator--was acquitted by a jury. Messenger said he was forced to act after doctors refused to heed the family's wishes. ``We did what was best for our baby,'' said his wife...
...idea that viewing a particular image (or a particular arrangement of ones and zeros in this case) can make you mentally ill has been around for a long time. It came right after the it-will-make-you-go-to-Hell idea, and right before the it-will-make-you-into-a-rapist-and-batterer idea. Pornography is nothing new: there have been pornographic movies since the invention of the motion picture, pornographic photographs since the invention of the camera; there has been pornographic literature and visual art since ancient times. And there have also always been those who wish...