Word: sided
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...place that sees a lot of drive-by shootings. So the city was surprised and saddened on Nov. 17, when Sasezley Richardson, 19, was shot in the head as he strolled through a quiet neighborhood toward his girlfriend's house. He was left bleeding on the side of the road--beside a bundle of diapers he had been carrying for his girlfriend's baby. He died three days later...
...look at the other side. As every Middle East hand knows, Arab (or Turkish) coffee, especially when spiced with cardamom, is among the best in the world. But when did Arabs last win a war? Or the Italians, who have given the world the Gaggia and the macchiato? Indeed, the Muslim states are the best case in point. Arab power was done in for good when Ferdinand and Isabella demolished the last Moorish stronghold on Iberian soil in 1492. This was no accident, comrades, as the Soviets used to say. It so happens that qahwa came into widespread use throughout...
...rise dramatically over the next few years, both because the baby-boom generation is aging and because the elderly are living longer. Unfortunately, the standard treatment for arthritis is the nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, or NSAIDS, a group that includes aspirin and ibuprofen. Too often these medicines have unacceptable side effects, including internal bleeding and ulcers...
With such great advantages, you might think arthritis sufferers would besiege their doctors and pharmacists for these medicines. But there is one very serious side effect to all of them: the expense. Traditional NSAIDS can cost as little as 20[cents] a pill; the new COX-II inhibitors, by contrast, will set you back about 15 times as much. As for Remicade, the first year's supply is expected to run about...
They were both rooted in the same Enlightenment ideals of universal human rights, and they both erupted during the waning decades of the 18th century. Why then did the American and the French revolutions produce such radically different results: a contentious but stable democracy on one side of the Atlantic, the Terror and the triumph of Napoleon on the other...