Word: sicked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...story as a kind of cold war fairy tale, colored by the moods of our age of therapy: Once upon a time, a boy's idealistic young father was set upon by an ogre who hid under the bridge, Whittaker Chambers (fat, neurotic, with bad teeth and a sick man's mysterious need to destroy), a former communist agent who told congressional investigators that Hiss transmitted government documents to him between...
Both men were sick of belligerence. Says Barak: "People who experience fighting personally tend to calibrate more carefully what it means to be in a permanent state of war." The two soldiers agreed that peace accords, not the continued occupation of Arab land, were ultimately the best safeguard for Israel's security. In contrast to the ultra-vigilant Netanyahu, they shared a confidence in the country's strength. Barak once said Netanyahu saw Israel as a "carp among barracudas" while he saw it as a "benign killer whale...
...food we eat, a group of Minnesota public health specialists reported in last week's New England Journal of Medicine that an eightfold increase in drug-resistant food poisoning among Minnesotans directly followed the approval and use of the same drug in chickens. While most of their patients got sick while traveling overseas--where overuse of antibiotics is even more widespread than in the U.S.--the scientists found evidence that the same thing is happening right here at home...
...department is still relying essentially on voluntary compliance by the industry -- though expectations are that the bad publicity generated by listeria outbreaks in the past will prompt manufacturers to quickly follow the Agriculture Department?s recommendations. Last year, for example, 21 people died and more than 100 fell sick from a listeria contamination that prompted a recall of some Sara Lee meat products. For optimum food safety, says Horowitz, thorough cooking of all meats -- not just pre-cooked meats -- is the most effective way to get rid of disease-causing bacteria that may have gotten past a plant inspection. "That...
...passion. Jealous here mostly means "frightened." So, when I found out there were people at about 100 theaters around the U.S. who have already been waiting in line for weeks to buy tickets for Episode 1--The Phantom Menace, I had to meet them. Weren't they already as sick of the movie as I was? Did they not know there was a Star Wars cookbook out that had a recipe for "Boba Fett-uccine"? How could they listen to George Lucas tell yet another interviewer that although we have progressed technologically as a race, we have not evolved emotionally...