Word: stricken
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...SCHOOLS SHOWERED WITH TAXPAYER GIFTS When Pennsylvania's Republican Governor sent out $100 rebates on school-district property taxes just before the elections, Democrats accused him of trying to buy votes. Now some taxpayers are returning the money - to school districts. The debt-stricken Philadelphia school district has already received more than $42,000 in rebate checks - mostly from suburbanites who say they feel underfunded city schools need the money more than their local schools...
...Gates Foundation's primary goal is to extend science and technology to poverty stricken areas, with a focus on the fields of public health and education...
...said that the issue of AIDS requires "world solidarity" and must not be left to the governments of the stricken countries...
...tell if you have contracted the dread virus? Well, the rest of this column goes out to all the hypochondriacs out there. Quite perniciously, the first symptoms of the infection in the early stages are similar to those of the common flu. The CDC warns that most stricken with Ebola display high fever, headache, muscle aches, stomach pain, fatigue and diarrhea, and some patients also complain of sore throat, hiccups, rash and red itchy eyes within a few days post-infection. Of course, these symptoms could easily be confused with numerous every-day maladies (from the common...
...currently accepted method for preventing HIV transmission from mother to child requires three to sixth months of treatment for the mother and child with the drug zidovudine (AZT). This regimen, while effective in advanced nations, is not accessible to the impoverished areas most stricken by AIDS...