Word: oriented
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Liver cancer is extremely prevalent in Africa and the Orient, and colon cancer throughout the world," said Isselbacher...
...knows exactly how these quasi-medical techniques work, people generally turn to them because conventional medicine seems so impersonal, costs so much and fails so often. Greg Schelkun, for example, graduated from Dartmouth and was working for a Boston publisher when he got a chance to go to the Orient with his mother, who was suffering from chronic chills and fevers. In the Philippines she met a healer who laid his hands on her and cured her. The healer also cured Schelkun of migraine headaches, which he had suffered for 15 years. "At the time, I didn't know what...
...Asia, Ma notes, "conforming is more important than being an individual. That becomes hard when you have a talent. You have to speak up, you have to say, 'I have an opinion.' But when I'm in the Orient, I'm not supposed to have an opinion. I try to respect the differences." Ozawa, 51, looks at his young colleague uneasily. "Can you do that?" he wonders, and then suddenly addresses an unseen camera. "This question is very serious," he says. "This is very private." Blackout...
Traveling in the Orient, Shultz told reporters, "I do not agree that my actions were designed somehow or other to make a record to protect myself. I do not operate that way." In Boston, Weinberger complained that the "commission statements just don't have any evidence or any support behind them at all." He added pointedly, "It's a little odd to be criticized for being opposed to a program that the Tower commission also opposed...
...strikes a visitor that Merz's rhinos live like a child kept in a germ-free bubble because of some defect in the immune system. The germs are the poachers. With rhino horns worth about $65,000 each now, to be sold for use as medicines in the Orient or as dagger handles in North Yemen, Anna Merz has about $1 million stomping around inside her fences...