Word: plighting
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Cartheginians. By Frank McGuiness. A dramatic and poetic exploration of the history and present plight of the city of Derry, Northern Ireland. Harvard Union, 8 p.m., $10 for students and seniors; $13 general admission. For more information, call...
Still, too much inflammation is probably better than none at all. The latter is the peculiar plight of Brooke Blanton, a 13-year-old Dallas girl who has taught researchers much of what they know about cell adhesion and wound healing. Brooke first came to doctors' attention as an infant, when her umbilicus and teething sores failed to close and became infected. Strangely, Brooke's lesions contained no pus -- the carcasses of millions of white cells that pile up at infection sites -- even though her bloodstream was teeming with infection-fighting white cells, or leukocytes...
...those low-income women forced to complete their pregnancies, their children will have the fewest opportunities to advance. Conservatives who pay little or no attention to the plight of the inner cities should think twice before effectively increasing their populations...
...students' plight is complicated by the fact that Jewish law also prohibits them from asking someone else to open the door...
...past five months. There was never really any other choice for him. "I am a son of my people," he says. "I was motivated by fears of a widespread civil war." After traveling the globe to settle other nations' conflicts, the veteran peacemaker could hardly ignore the plight of his own people. And many of the same Georgians who accused Shevardnadze of being a Kremlin agent less than a year ago now believe he is the only man who can prevent their country from splitting apart. As a close adviser puts it, "He is a hostage of circumstances...