Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WHILE my friend Julia watched helplessly from a nearby canoe, I felt the swift current pulling me towards the rapids. "Keep your feet up! Stay upstream of the canoe!" I thought furiously. "Breathe! Breathe! Breathe...
...transplanted heart goes skiing. As a society, Americans are living longer and well and with less to fear from diseases that ravaged whole generations. Life expectancy has jumped during this century from 47 to 75 years. And yet the physicians, victims of their own success, are finding that however swift the advance of medical knowledge, it is still outpaced by public expectations. "The public thinks that all diseases should be treatable, all disabilities reparable," observes John Stoeckle, chief of the medical clinics at Massachusetts General Hospital. "And there should be no pain and suffering...
...been undergoing therapy for recurring depression. Despite a comfortable income, the 63-year-old divorcee was so afraid of poverty that she twice tried to kill herself with pills. Each time, her family discovered her soon enough to save her. But on Saturday morning, May 6, she found a swift and certain alternative. She went to a shopping center and bought a handgun. Since Berliner knew nothing about weapons, the salesclerk loaded the pistol for her. She took the gun home and shot herself. At that point, there was no time, and no way, for anyone to help...
...issues touch as deep a nerve in the nation's psyche as questions surrounding capital punishment. Thus reaction across the country last week was swift and in some quarters downright horrified when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that crimes by some juveniles and mentally retarded people may be punishable by death. By a 5-to-4 vote, the high court ruled in a pair of decisions that the constitutional ban on "cruel and unusual punishments" does not forbid the execution of youths who commit crimes at 16 or 17 years of age, nor does it automatically prohibit death sentences...
Doors are closing on Vietnamese boat people heading for Hong Kong, Sri Lankans fleeing to London, Haitians landing in Miami and thousands of others. -- China metes out swift "justice" following the student revolt. -- After 14 years of civil war, is peace coming to Angola? -- A daring Norwegian rescue saves more than 900 aboard the Soviet cruise liner Maxim Gorky...