Word: stricken
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...Kamiyacho station, 11 minutes after the strange man had boarded, commuters panicked ... 'I saw several dozen people on the platform who had either collapsed or were on their knees unable to stand up,' recalls Nobuo Serizawa, a photographer ... Said Kiyo Arai, a 22-year-old government employee who was stricken ... : 'We're just innocent, ordinary people. It frightens me to think how vulnerable...
...India's Poor, Still Left Behind Thank you for the article "Subcontinental Divide," on the Indian economy, which is definitely experiencing a boom [Feb. 23]. As you reported, India's middle class is exploding in size, but unfortunately, there are millions of poverty-stricken people for whom the progress is meaningless. Much of India lacks even minimal infrastructure, and conditions are deplorable. Are the "happy new capitalists" enthusiastic enough to undertake developmental work in needy regions? The population growth in our country has us lagging behind in prehistoric stages of development. However much the government tries to tout India...
What scares scientists most about H5N1 is that someone eventually will be stricken by the bird flu and a human flu at the same time, allowing the viruses to swap genetic material. The resulting hybrid could be both deadly and virulent. Even if it weren't immediately contagious, it could quickly evolve. A study published last week in the journal Science reported that the SARS virus mutated in a matter of months from a form that could infect only 3% of people who came in contact with it to one that infected 70%. Once it mutated, SARS quickly spread around...
...fund raiser in Tyson's Corner, Va., has resisted, afraid Kendel won't let her take him home again. As for me, I can grumble all I want about my girls not taking their cats--because I know they never will. Recently when little Seis fell ill, I felt stricken. Caring for her was hard work, but losing her would have hurt a lot more than I would ever...
...Look at this!" I remember saying to my amazed parents when I slowly raised my left arm. Stricken with polio in 1949, I had lost all feeling in the arm and from the waist down. The doctors said I'd never walk again. I was 9. I shocked everyone by recovering 18 months later. But my guess is that I never would have become a filmmaker and developed such a rich fantasy life necessary for my work had it not been for my battle with the disease...