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...should be repealed; it did not decrease, and may have actually increased, the number of students who got sick at The Game. In effect, the keg ban prompted many students to “pre-game” before the tailgate with alcoholic drinks. Additionally, the ban caused many of the organizations hosting tailgates to serve mixed drinks, making the level of alcohol more difficult for students to ascertain. These two factors created a dangerous situation where more students could consume unhealthy levels of alcohol...
Dallek says that seeing Kennedy's medical records gave him greater respect for the President's courage in conducting his presidency in the face of daily pain. But he also writes that Kennedy should have let voters know in 1960 just how sick he was. If what he found was a profile in courage, it's a profile in bad faith...
Much of our failure stems from misinformation. Only one of the 10 students I asked knew what foster care is, a temporary care situation for a child in need, with a variety of scenarios. For example, when I was in preschool, my single mother became very sick with a kidney ailment (exacerbated by my jumping on her kidney that morning), and had to go the emergency room. Her friends were at work and couldn’t take me. The doctor threatened to call Social Services, because a hospital is “no place for a small child...
...while studying in New Haven, she contracted tuberculosis and was treated at Gaylord Sanatorium in Connecticut. Her brother Louis Dienes hypothesized that working long hours around sick patients had weakened Taft’s resistance...
...don’t get any kind of sick pay or vacation time...I’ve been in a few [accidents], hit car doors a few times, it happens a lot. I’m definitely afraid of being injured,” said Aaron Harris, who has worked for Boston-based Marathon Messenger Service for two years...