Word: ills
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...actual premise of Meet Joe Black, however, is fascinating and wonderfully profound. Pitt first appears as an agreeable, ill-fated newcomer to New York City who hits on medical resident Susan Parrish (Claire Forlani) in a coffee shop. Soon after leaving the shop, he is killed by an out-of-control car (the death is so overwhelmingly violent that you have to laugh). It turns out that Death himself has orchestrated Mr. Pitt's death so he can inhabit the young man's body. He next approaches communications tycoon William Parrish (Anthony Hopkins), Susan's father, and convinces...
Given the explosion in ADHD diagnoses and Ritalin use over the past decade, the disorder is surprisingly ill defined. No one is sure that it's a neurochemical imbalance that can be corrected with medicine, much the way daily insulin shots help diabetics. There is no blood test, no PET scan, no physical exam that can determine who has it and who does not. For many children, Ritalin is the answer simply because it works. "It's a fixed, stable, low-dose drug," says Dr. Philip Berent, consulting psychiatrist at the Arlington Center for Attention Deficit Disorder in Arlington Heights...
...Mining companies can still take advantage of laws enacted in the 1800s that allow special privileges. The only difference between this and the corporate welfare you reported on is that today the federal and local governments are selling off our future at bargain rates. DAVID BROOKS Fox River Grove, Ill...
...elegant Maurice Chevalier-like portrait of a resplendent Tom Wolfe pays homage to the dash and elan of another age. Eustace Tilley lives on! JOHN MENIG Manteno, Ill...
...kills another on national television. What do the authorities do next? Answer: Very little. Dr. Jack Kevorkian, the retired pathologist who has admitted helping over 130 terminally ill patients end their lives, threw down the gauntlet to prosecutors Sunday after CBS's "60 Minutes" aired a tape in which Kevorkian commits the act himself. "Either they go," he said, "or I go." Kevorkian has been tried and acquitted three times on assisted suicide charges; his lawyer says he now wants to force a "high noon" confrontation with the police. If convicted, the self-styled Dr. Death says he will starve...