Word: liverance
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Some folks who have tried to give--at least 150 in New York City--are getting calls and letters informing them that their blood has been rejected because it tested positive for various diseases, chief among them hepatitis, an infection of the liver. Cynics say no good deed goes unpunished, but this turn of events could be a blessing in disguise. Hepatitis treatments have progressed rapidly in recent years. To avail yourself of them, you first have to know what you're infected with...
...starters, the word hepatitis simply means inflammation of the liver. There's an alphabet soup of viruses that cause the inflammation, and treatment depends on which virus is to blame. Three viruses--A, B and C--cause most of the problems...
Social scientists say three types of rumors commonly emerge following a catastrophe: wish-fulfillment rumors, bogey rumors and wedge-driving rumors. The old man's debris ride to safety is a classic wish-fulfillment rumor, as is the story that Osama bin Laden is dying of liver cancer. Bogey rumors (derived from the bogeyman) are based on fear. Poisoned reservoirs, anthrax attacks, the visage of Satan in the World Trade Center smoke and the Klingerman virus (which supposedly arrives through the mail on a sponge in a blue envelope marked "A Gift for You from the Klingerman Foundation") all play...
...Security Council. Rare moments carved out for vice-presidential business don't last long. A scheduling meeting last week had just got under way when the phone rang. "I'll be there right away, Sir," said Cheney, leaving for the Oval Office without a word. "What are we, chopped liver?" joked one of his abandoned aides. When Bush rewrote a portion of his Sept. 20 address to Congress, re-framing the Administration's position on Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network, he made sure an aide called Cheney to run it by him. More often than not, the last...
With new commercials touting his liver donation to a relative, plus the 11th-hour endorsement of Moakley’s two brothers,Lynch has sewn up the image of “iron man with a heart.” His campaign is clearly not worried about tomorrow...