Word: infirm
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...change the way our scholars do research and remove physical boundaries from the pursuit of knowledge. Faculty or students abroad could access Widener’s legendary stacks; students in the Quad could access the Loeb Design Library’s holdings without braving the hike; the disabled and infirm could access volumes of information with ease. And most significant of all: Books will always be available, no matter what time of day, how many patrons demand access or however rare the physical text...
...mortal pangs of disease and malnutrition. State-sponsored militias and killing squads swoop down into villages and ravage them, going from street to street and house to house, propelled by an extraordinary sense of revenge and right. Places of worship are rehabilitated into killing fields, where the wounded and infirm are annihilated in the presence of God. These invaders, some indigenous and some from far-off lands, do not fight for the future or for a greater good; they fight merely to avenge past wrongs and to impose an arbitrary vision of order beholden only to themselves...
...Catholics around me, afflicted by disease and sadness, have faces full of hope. While they clutch the wheelchairs of elderly, infirm parents in one hand and their rosaries in the other, they are thinking only of the good that religion might do. Only I am moved to cry—the agnostic backpacker who thinks of French Catholicism as a long tradition of killing Huguenots, persecuting Jews and building gorgeous cathedrals on the backs of peasants...
...Hong Kong, organizers were worried that one of the proposed slogans, "Return Power to the People," might be too provocative for China's leaders. That was before hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets. Ignoring convection-oven heat and a pollution level at which the elderly and infirm are warned not to go outside, the numbers alone sent a pretty clear, and startling, message to Beijing: Hong Kong has discovered People Power...
...people may have died in the heat wave. President Jacques Chirac returns from a two-week vacation in Canada. AUG. 21 Chirac breaks his silence about the crisis, praising the government's handling of the situation and urging French society to take better care of its aged and infirm...