Word: sickness
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Halpern spent hours photographing his subjects—almost all custodians or food service workers—“until they really got sick of me,” he jokes...
...life, he had contributed to the building funds of each and every sect in Philadelphia, including 5 for the Congregation Mikveh Israel for its new synagogue in April 1788. During the July 4 celebrations that year, he was too sick to leave his bed, but the parade marched under his window. For the first time, as per arrangements that Franklin had overseen, "the clergy of different Christian denominations, with the rabbi of the Jews, walked...
...advice. In Bangkok, a 24-hour radio program called "Uniting to Help Each Other" pulls in 800,000 listeners during peak hours by serving as a proxy people's advocate. An errant spouse? The radio station will dispatch a therapist to provide counseling at the couple's home. A sick puppy? Callers will flood the line with recommendations on the best veterinarian. And that's only the beginning. The station helps callers find wallets left in the back of taxis and notifies the fire station when there's a blaze in the neighborhood. It also badgers hospitals to admit patients...
...think the budget is a sick and craven attempt to balance the tax cuts for the rich and the declining profits of companies on the backs of the poor and the working class,” he said. “I wanted to vent my rage and let them know that there is a solution...
...writer on contemporary events and aspire to immortality, you had better have something special in your pen. George Orwell, whose centenary was celebrated last week, had honesty and clarity of expression. Combined, they enabled a man who was almost always sick to produce a body of work - essays, reviews, novels like Animal Farm and 1984 - that will illumine the next generation's understanding of the world as much as it did those of the past...