Word: pilling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviets are lagging. The government's ideal family has three children, but couples are forced to use the unreliable rhythm method or coitus interruptus, with abortion as a backup. According to Dr. Knaus, Soviet men do not like condoms, diaphragms come in only one size, and the pill (which is just beginning to be manufactured within the U.S.S.R.) is regarded with skepticism and fear. Intrauterine devices are popular but in short supply. The result: in 1980 Soviet doctors performed an estimated 16 million abortions. Says Dr. Knaus: "The average woman has six abortions during her lifetime. A woman...
...Anne Preston, section leader for Nat Sci 150, said that she and several class members are investigating the use of DES as a `morning after' pill at University Health Services (UHS). She added that she plans to meet with the directors of UHS in early April...
...Daughter is not entirely immune to the tired conventions of backstage movie melodramas. No sooner does Lynn start to hit it big than the film ineluctably slips into the usual Star Is Born cliches. Suddenly, and with only the slightest motivation, the protagonist is afflicted by marital conflict, pill addiction, desperate loneliness and a nervous collapse. True, these tragedies happened in life, but in the movie they seem phony: Lynn's later personal traumas are not so much dramatized as displayed like flash cards for predictable audience response. As the screenplay loses its energy, so does most everything else...
Totman believes that the two theories need not lead to exclusive approaches. He recognizes that much of modern medicine ignores the patient and concentrates instead on symptoms or systems. "The present-day practitioner," he writes, "functions more like a pill-dispenser, and the surgeon more like a maintenance mechanic." At the same time, though, Totman warns that an overly spiritual approach can ignore the microbes in favor of the mind...
Harvard found Saturday's loss a particularly bitter pill to swallow because it marked the third time this season Harvard had fallen to its archrivals. The Bulldogs play a characteristically rough breed of hockey, and "they just don't make it really fun," Reed said, adding "Yale is a team we just hate...