Word: ills
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...20th century will be most remembered, like the 17th, for its earthshaking advances in science and technology. In his massive history of the 20th century, Paul Johnson declares: "The scientific genius impinges on humanity, for good or ill, far more than any statesman or warlord." Albert Einstein was more pithy: "Politics is for the moment. An equation is for eternity...
...Like most of mankind he was ill prepared for the destiny and responsibility which had been thrust upon him. He did not want the responsibility; the destiny rested awkwardly on his shoulders...
...perfect. Critics lamented his deviousness, his lack of candor, his tendency to ingratitude. His character flaws were widely discussed: his stubbornness, his vanity, his occasional vindictiveness, his habit of yessing callers just to be amiable. At times, his confidence merged into arrogance, diminishing his political instincts, leading to an ill-defined court-packing scheme and an unsuccessful attempt to purge his opponents in the 1938 by-elections. One must also concede the failures of vision that led to the forcible relocation of Japanese Americans, which deprived tens of thousands of men, women and children of Japanese descent of their fundamental...
...residents have practiced a critical - some say unnecessarily invasive - procedure on patients who have failed to respond to 20 minutes of resuscitation and who are moments from clinical death. It's then that new doctors, who often find themselves under pressure to quickly deliver fluids or medication to critically ill patients, practice threading a tube into the patient's femoral vein. This training maneuver is generally performed without a patient's or family's consent or knowledge, and its proponents argue that performing the same technique on a cadaver doesn't give doctors the same real-life exposure. Of course...
...This lesson in do-it-yourself scripture writing could easily allow any of us to be a self-anointed Matthew, Mark, Luke or John." GEORGE A. THOMA SR. Lombard, Ill...