Word: lostness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Still, much valuable knowledge is being lost, according to the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, because there is no uniform method for collecting information on unnatural deaths. Increasing numbers of M.E.s believe their expertise can also serve the living victims of assaults. Dr. Charles Petty, chief medical examiner of Dallas, regularly checks bruised children brought to a county hospital to see if they are being battered...
...early Frank Stella. Today the stripe continues to linger in the wings of late modernism and is the adopted sign of one of the most toughly individual artists in America, Sean Scully. What, after so many other stripes, has he made of it? Not the emblem of a lost utopianism but something fierce, concrete and obsessive, with a grandeur shaded by awkwardness -- a stripe like no one else...
...hormones drops, women face not only the prospect of hot flashes and insomnia but also a greater chance of worse conditions, such as heart disease and a weakening of the bones called osteoporosis. Over the years, pharmaceutical companies have developed pills designed to replace the hormones the women have lost, and these drugs have come into wide use. Now, however, new questions are being raised about their safety. Although the evidence is far from conclusive, a major study published last week in the New England Journal of Medicine suggests that at least some of the post-menopause medication may increase...
There is a precedent for such an action. All DC-10s were grounded for a month in 1979 after an American Airlines plane lost a wing engine during take-off. That accident took the lives of 258 people...
...action, a political campaign, an isolated incident of racial violence. Sharp disagreements about the origins and implications of the alarming growth of the black underclass and fears of drug-related crime have widened a gulf of mutual incomprehension between the races. Even in private discourse, whites and blacks have lost the capacity to talk to each other honestly about the subject that divides them more than any other...