Word: infirmities
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...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...
...market-place of ideas, they become scrappy, instrumental and unpalatable. My first aim this summer is to quiet their squabbling and nourish each runt with my mental largesse (owing in no small part to the largesse of the Harvard College Research Program). When the fall comes, the weak and infirm shall have to be weeded out; but in the meantime, I’ll luxuriate in the abundance and allow my wascally thoughts to combine and proliferate at will. Indeed, Widener is the perfect place for rabbit-hunting. How do you start? Be very, very quiet?...
...locations where one sick person infected many others. Moreover, there are 6.8 million people in Hong Kong, which means a there are now more than 60,000 people not infected for every infected person. The recovery rate is high, and the dead are more likely to be elderly or infirm. Epidemiologists using standard models for disease outbreaks now say that the disease has been mostly contained, according to the World Health Organization...
...Strangely, even the Sugihara family is divided on the case. Nobuki Sugihara, the hero's youngest son, has denounced the lawsuit as an exploitation of his elderly and infirm mother. But Yukiko's daughter-in-law Michi Sugihara calls Nobuki's position "foolish." Hollywood may also be entering the fray. Both authors are developing separate Sugihara film projects, though they deny that the lawsuit has anything to do with their cinematic endeavors. For now, it's anyone's guess which version of Sugihara's List will make it to the multiplex near...
...VIOLATORS MAY PAY LARGE FINES AND/OR SERVE UP TO FIVE YEARS IN PRISON. But waits at the security checkpoints (six have just been added, bringing the total to a generous 20) were usually less than five minutes, and passengers seemed to be handling the preholiday stress well--even the infirm elderly woman who tripped a metal detector and had to laboriously remove her black orthopedic shoes for inspection and watch her purse being ransacked before she was carted off, exhausted, in her wheelchair...