Word: ills
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...home from school at the age of eight, I was beaten by a grown man because I was Jewish. At 17, at Auschwitz, I witnessed the hate crime of the century against Jews, Gypsies, gays and others. Fifty-five years later, we have ill-disguised hatred, instigated by the religious right as well as by some of our elected representatives. How many more innocent gays and lesbians will be attacked, as was Shepard? Sign me Jewish, gay and proud of it. GERALD B. ROSENSTEIN San Francisco...
...holding down the fort during the time that Maynard was ill," he said. "I have immense respect for him but am also extremely excited for this new challenge...
Public preschool has been cropping up in stump speeches across the nation. Appearing at a 36-state powwow on pre-K in September, Education Secretary Richard Riley promised increased federal collaboration. Educators, who have long fretted over children showing up for kindergarten ill prepared, are coming around in support. Unlike some private nursery schools, where teachers may have only a high school diploma, most public pre-kindergarten teachers undergo the same rigorous certification as elementary school teachers. "Today we're asking kids to meet higher standards in K through 12," says American Federation of Teachers president Sandra Feldman...
...past decade, Collins, 31, a Belvidere, Ill., health-care worker, has been hospitalized at least once a year for the self-injury that scars her arms, legs and stomach. Her boyfriend of eight years left her, saying her self-mutilation made him miserable; most of her friends have dropped her. A few months ago, she cut herself so badly that she was soaked in blood at the end of a five-minute ambulance ride. "But I didn't want to die," she explains. "What people didn't understand was this was my way of staying alive...
Turning conventional thinking on its head, scientists find that human brains can generate new cells. Investigators were able to demonstrate that some actively dividing cells in the brains of terminally ill cancer patients were in fact healthy neurons. The finding may lead to treatments for Alzheimer's and other brain disorders...