Word: sicklied
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Campaign '84 has begun because the press gives the politicians the exposure they want [Feb. 28]. One reason American voters are apathetic is that we are sick of hearing about the election for two years out of every four...
...suicide guide that Koestler promoted, like other how-to suicide manuals published in the U.S., Scotland and The Netherlands, was designed only for the use of hopelessly sick people, with the express purpose of reducing, as the British guide puts it, "the incidence of unsuccessful attempts." A Guide to Self-Deliverance is heart-wrenching reading. The manual stresses that suicide should be a last resort for those in intractable pain. It then offers the exact doses of drugs that will ensure death. The manual recommends that the drugs be used in combination with other methods, such as plastic garbage bags...
...Harvard women's track team must be getting awfully sick of losing to Princeton by only a few points...
...Astronauts Bill Lenoir and Bob Overmyer experienced nausea and vomiting during the fifth flight of the Columbia last November. Lenoir's distress helped force changes in planned space tasks during the five-day mission. Space sickness, renamed by NASA "space adaptation syndrome" (SAS), was recognized only a decade ago. Says former Astronaut Mike Collins: "We didn't have much of a problem with space sickness as long as we were strapped in Mercury and Gemini. Same for the Russians. It's when we all began floating around in Skylab and the Russians in Salyut that the guys...
...space you receive a lot of novel input into the brain, which doesn't know how to handle it. We just have to adapt. Some people adapt rapidly, some slowly. It's like going out on a boat with a lot of people. Some will get sick and others will be just fine...