Word: sicking
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Think of the global economy as you might think of yourself starting to feel sick. You wake up one day with a bad cold--that was last winter. It turns into a nasty dose of flu that, with a few pills and lots of honey and lemon, you think you'll get over soon. That was the spring. But now your aches and pains are beginning to feel like something worse; pneumonia, maybe? That's where we are this summer...
...Brooklyn, Brooklyn, I’m sick of hearing it,” legendary sportswriter Jimmy Cannon wrote in the New York Post in 1952. “The way they talk, you think it was a whole country with an army and a king or something. All they got is a ball club.” Maybe Cannon was right, but it couldn’t have been just any ball club. Not with the way the borough’s identity vanished in ’57 and the way the current revival has moved some aging baby...
...know, however, that because stem cells are undifferentiated, (they aren?t committed to becoming a liver cell, say, or a blood cell), scientists may be able to prompt them into becoming whatever type of cell is needed. The cells may also be able to replace damaged or sick cells in a patient with an injury or degenerative disease...
...airlines' defense rests on the lack of conclusive evidence linking flying to dying, or even getting sick. "There is no scientifically valid evidence that the cabin environment in commercial aircraft is unhealthy," declares Dr. Russell Rayman, executive director of the Aerospace Medical Association. As for risk, the airlines maintain there is no evidence so far that suggests a busy aircraft cabin might be more dangerous than sitting still anywhere, whether on a crowded train, bus, car or even at home. Many carriers feel they have been unfairly singled out as the scapegoats of a health scare driven by the media...
...tales of suffering among America's poor, where depression occurs three times as often as among the general population, were rejected by a big-circulation newsmagazine as so "implausibly horrendous it becomes comical." Yet poorer people are often transformed after they are diagnosed as depressed. Being told you are sick, he notes, is infinitely more cheering than being told you are worthless...