Word: sicked
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...whose graceless stiffness no conversation with a tutor could soften. We have all become hunchbacks before our time and we have only ourselves and each other to blame for the burden, but that does not make it any less real. We know these things, we know that Harvard is sick and, not for the first time, turning to UHS and Harvard's other vaunted, empty "resources" isn't going to do much good. --Jennifer L. Hanson...
...despair is treatable and transient in healthy people, it's often as much so or more in sick ones. Yet there comes a time in some illnesses when both outside and in are filled with nothing but pain and will continue to be until the inevitable end--at which point, someone throughout history nearly always pulls the trigger, legally or not. And the someone has always been the professionals on the spot, the loved ones if possible and whatever is left of the patient, in a consensus of surrender. It isn't cool or precise, but it's the best...
...cruel, sexually frank script. "When the kids read it, they were unfazed. They'd say, 'I know a kid who has got it much worse than that,'" says Solondz. "But many of the parents were--and I think understandably--very unsettled by it." They used words like "sick" and "depressing." Heather's mom quashed some of the bad language, but still allowed her daughter to do a scene where she fantasizes about getting to third base...
...beginning of her chapter on health and emergencies, for example, Hanson writes, "Few things suck more than being sick at college, unless you count Dracula." And a bit later, in the section on athlete's foot: "Like us in so many things, fungi, too, prefer intimate attachments with the buff. But don't rush for the barbells--you too, inactive one, may be blessed by union with some microbes whose biological clocks are telling them to settle down...
...Family leave. A nice idea; parents should not have to choose between a job and a sick child. But unlike in Europe, where government helps subsidize the cost, here it was simply imposed on employers...