Word: poorness
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...From what I can recall, it was TIME, among many other media outlets, that promoted Obama as a saviour. Poor man! You set the bar so high that his attempts to live up to your expectations were doomed to fail. Now you are among his fiercest critics, highlighting his failures almost with a sense of glee. I am not a great Obama fan, but give the guy a chance - he is only human and is trying, as best as he can, to call the right shots. Jacq Krige, PORT ELIZABETH, SOUTH AFRICA...
...alarm over the Maoist insurgency across a wide stretch of central India, to the frustrations expressed in the biggest Bollywood hit ever - a 2009 film, 3 Idiots, that skewers the grade-obsessed higher-education system - India is a country ready for unflinching points of view. "India is not a poor country," Bissell says. "It's a poorly managed country...
...culture. Since her death, Lacks' cells have been shot into space, infected with tuberculosis and zapped with radiation to test the effects of a nuclear bomb. HeLa helped develop the polio vaccine and drugs for everything from Parkinson's to AIDS. But Lacks' children, many of them too poor to afford medical care, were never consulted about or even thanked for their mother's involuntary gift to science. Journalist Rebecca Skloot's history of the miraculous cells reveals deep injustices in U.S. medical research--chief among them the fact that the woman whose body helped cure us all left behind...
Bone-setting was a doctor's skill borne of necessity. In the days when any surgery meant great pain and usually an infection, closed treatment was the only sensible option. A good closed reduction still makes any bone doctor worth his salt proud. Walk up to some poor guy looking forward to a life of pain, deformity and stiffness, pick up his wrist, give it just the right yank and wham! he's cured. Makes you feel like Fonzi kicking the Coke machine. (See TIME's special report "How to Live 100 Years...
...equally daunting problem may be a legacy of poor political participation. The government reported 23% voter turnout in the last presidential race, but analysts say that statistic is likely to be inflated. Many Egyptians are apathetic about participating in elections because they don't believe they can effect change in a corrupt system. Others say they simply have other things to worry about. The U.N. says 23% of the Egyptian population lives below the poverty line...