Word: sickingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...blessed with one of the best water-supply systems in the world. Yet half of all Americans worry about getting sick from tap water contaminants, according to a 1995 survey by the Water Quality Association. As if to underscore the point, the Environmental Protection Agency has ordered the nation's 300 largest municipal water suppliers to begin testing for the cryptosporidium parasite, which poses a risk for people with weakened immune systems...
...this attention to friendship and the feelings of others that many say is Thomas' greatest trait. People love her almost as much as they love to talk about her. Cahn tells stories of Thomas bringing food to sick friends and being the friend on whom he can always count. She was the most consistent letter writer to Cahn when he was in Honduras last summer. She sent him an article she ripped out of an in-flight magazine that was about a woman who worked in Honduras--it had nothing to do with anything else Cahn was doing--and sent...
...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...