Word: symptoms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Scientists, continue to see spiritual engagement as the paramount medical technique. But at least since Pasteur and Ehrlich established the connection between microbes and disease in the 19th century, medicine had regarded belief as a distraction at best and, should it make claims to medical efficacy, as a possible symptom of a pathology called fraud...
...Milken's angst, however, he has never had an overt symptom of advanced prostate cancer, no pain in his bones, weight loss, chronic fatigue or problems with urination. "That's one of the things that's scary about this," he says. "Had I not had a PSA, I would not have known...
...Symptom Number One: The Grille. This past weekend I had occasion to venture down JFK St. for a pitcher of Red Dog. The crowd before midnight was a smattering of Harvard jocks, the Harvard women who love them and innumerable girls from Boston College who would like to. The Grille serves as a convenient hangout for them because of its easy accessibility to men and, it seems, open-door policy for women. Besides, it has cheap beer, the preferred drink of the "sporting...
...appointment I did keep was with John Romero, co-founder of a company based in Mesquite, Texas, called Id Software, which created Doom. I called him at 2 p.m., as arranged, but he wasn't there. I recognized the symptom. Later Romero explained how he handled appointments while living in Doomspace: "I try not to make...
...country, almost without knowing where it was going, has wandered down unpaved roads that vanish into swampland. The Farrakhan march--warmhearted, festive, lovely in its way--was a sort of culminating symptom. On respectable op-ed pages, writers have been suggesting that we might as well consider breaking off part of the U.S. to form a separate Republic of African America. The arrangement would confirm a secession that has already occurred in millions of minds all over the country. The attitude is that it was a horrible marriage from the start and has long since dissolved in chronic dysfunction, occasional...