Word: mentalities
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Other medical advances of the final third of our century have been equally dazzling. They include arthroscopic and laparoscopic surgery, effective chemotherapy, the newer reproductive technologies and highly specific drug treatment of mental diseases. Physicians now routinely use sophisticated imaging techniques such as CAT and PET scans, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and vastly improved radioisotope methods for diagnosis and treatment, plus X ray-guided therapeutic and diagnostic interventions. The increased understanding of ultramicroscopic cellular activities has led to the development of new drugs for a wide variety of disorders, including heart disease...
More than two centuries later, Jonathan Swift's grim portrait of senescence delivers a double-edged message. On the one hand, it describes the classic image of old age that still predominates: a period of inevitable and distressing physical and mental decline. On the other, it starkly illustrates the folly of life lived too long--a dilemma that is at the heart of today's debate about the consequences of increased longevity...
...Wanna Do." Wal-Mart is sensitive to the gun issue. In 1994, it was sued by the family of a Texas man who allegedly killed his parents with a gun he bought at Wal-Mart even though he indicated on a federal form that he had been treated for mental problems. yep, yellow Robertson Barrett
...foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds. With more mental channels to choose from than cable TV, Dick Morris could argue the case round or square or Rosicrucian or vegetarian, as long, one suspects, as the money was consistently green. Or maybe Morris was just beguiled by his own genius for spinning like a Sufi to whatever moral music the customer wished to play...
...question now is whether Yeltsin has the physical and mental stamina to keep that high-risk approach going. "Yeltsin is always capable of something unexpected," says Anatoli Sobchak, the former mayor of St. Petersburg. "He seems to have lost all his strength and then he recuperates." But each recuperation appears to exact a heavier toll, and bouts of hyperactivity are followed by longer and longer periods of inaction and illness. That is no long-term prescription for keeping control of a country as unruly as Russia today...