Word: ills
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...believe that the attacker knew me. That night the detectives told my parents what had happened. My father identified our attacker as my former tennis coach, disguised as a stranger. I had stopped training with him four months earlier when my parents and I suspected that he was mentally ill...
...their products, yes. Offer favorable terms of trade, yes. But don't organize their economies for them by offering Western models of unlimited growth in a finite environment. Multinational corporations that do business in Africa should guarantee that most of the benefits go to Africans. MARK HACKLER Glenview, Ill...
...kids fixate on toy cars or trucks or guns. When David Bohnett, founder of the surprise smash-hit Website GeoCities www.geocities.com) was a little boy, his obsession was the telephone. "I still think phones are the coolest," he says. He remembers when touch-tone phones first came to Hinsdale, Ill., his hometown. "I told my parents I'd give up my allowance if they got one," he says...
...ever hated your name? Apparently some people have. A recently published study by researchers at the University of California in San Diego has suggested that people with "cooler" initials--such as ACE, JOY, WOW or GOD--might actually live longer than people with more negative ones, like BUM, UGH, ILL, PIG, ASS or DED. The study looked at five million California death certificates and singled out 3,487 men (whose names are less likely to change over a lifetime). The study included 2,287 men with decidedly negative monograms and 1,200 WINners and VIP-types...
...average, those who were ILL or DED died 2.8 years earlier than a control group, while the GODly lived an average of 4.48 years longer. Of the JOYful, 0.5 percent died in suicides and 2.5 percent in accidents, while 3.5 percent of the BUMlike took their own lives and 6 percent died in accidents...