Word: shells
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Demoralization is a serious problem among medical workers. Many doctors and nurses fled during the war and have not returned. Those who stayed are overworked and still shell-shocked from their wartime experiences. At Baghdad's Yarmouk hospital, chief surgeon Boghos Boghossian remembers when more than 300 bodies were delivered from the Amiriyah bomb shelter, many charred beyond recognition. There were only 20 burn beds to receive them. Candlelight replaced electricity throughout the hospital, except in the operating theaters, to which all electricity from the generator was diverted. "It was like being thrown back into the Middle Ages," says Boghossian...
...course, southborough is only a half-hour van ride away. And the library's depository department has guaranteed next-day delivery of requested books. But despite these preliminary assurances, there is a danger: By next spring--should the literary exodus continue unabated--Widener will have become an empty shell in the middle of the Yard. We will spend reading period travelling round Massachusetts in search of the books that have been missing all semester...
...cooking kills salmonella bacteria, the hard-boiled food industry has fallen in love with the safety and shelf life of pasteurized liquid eggs. Since last fall, Hyatt hotels have dished up fresh eggs only when a guest explicitly requests them sunny-side up. Diners are not told of this shell game, for as a Hyatt spokeswoman insists, "to the average person's taste, I don't think you'd notice." Liquid eggs have become the norm at fast- food chains (Burger King) and on airlines (United and American...
...their state for a moment, knowing they would return to a state of absolutely no comprehension and no hope, would they want to be kept alive? Would I want to be kept alive like that? It's not being kept alive as a human being, but as a shell, and that seems inappropriate to me. The truth is, the person is gone and doesn't really care...
...Erbil one sees why everybody is fleeing. The giant mosaic portrait of Saddam on the outskirts of town is riddled with bullet holes. The Kurdish parliament building is also trashed and gaping with shell holes. No one knows what is going on, but everyone is catching fright, which soon sweeps the city as it is doing in all the other towns. On a street corner, Kurds have a snowball fight with snow out of a truck brought down from the mountains for drinking water. A young girl wandering in a yard hands the visitor a message. "For my brother...