Word: ironization
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...into deeply divisive theological and moral questions and yet always cognizant of our spiritual grounding harking back to this country's origins. The truth is that the previous Pope and the handpicked bishops that rule the dioceses have driven out any plain talkers. That was all done with the iron hand of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger behind the scenes as prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. He wants a church made up of Ave Maria University zealots - the chosen few who will preserve Catholicism as the Pope envisions it in all its medieval splendor. To think that...
...Whoever is not a socialist at 20 has no heart; whoever is still a socialist at 40 has no head.” So (apocryphally?) spoke the “Iron Chancellor” Otto von Bismarck, a man with witticisms and grandfatherly maxims in no short supply. Harvard’s class of 1967 appropriated the first half of this particular idiom last December when warning of the “careerist, vocational orientation” to which many colleges today subscribe, and lamenting the “widespread apathy and political indifference” on display in post...
...cause of this condition—which doctors termed iron-refractory iron-deficiency anemia (IRIDA)—remained unknown because the children all had good diets and none had any other complicating conditions...
While most cases of iron deficiency—the leading cause of anemia—are treatable with oral iron supplements, there has always been a cohort of children who did not respond at all to oral treatments and only poorly to intravenous ones...
...researchers—Mark Fleming of Children’s and Nancy Andrews, formerly of Children’s and now dean of Duke Medical School—found that the cause of the inability to respond to oral iron supplements is mutations in a gene called TMPRSS6...