Word: symptoms
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Imagine what it must be like to stroll down a street and then suddenly lurch like a drunkard. To see double images of a coffee cup, a friend's face, a newspaper. To feel dizzy because rooms seem to spin like merry-go-rounds. The onset of such symptoms 10 years ago sent Chicago sales representative Suzanne Arens, now 39, stumbling to a neurologist. The diagnosis: multiple sclerosis. "It was devastating," she recalls. "The disease progressed to where I would have an attack every six months. I was hospitalized three times." For the past five years, however, Arens has managed...
...realize that the Muhammad/Mansfield comments reek of insensitivity. People on the opposite side of this issue hold that such insensitivity exacerbates racial tension. Because one of the underlying determinants of racial tension is ignorance, then perhaps insensitivity is merely a symptom of a greater disease: intolerance...
Third-year law student Camille D. Holmes, a member of the Coalition for Civil Rights (CCR), said yesterday she felt the graffiti was a "symptom of students' discontent...
...shooting percentage is the symptom, not the malady. The problem is that Harvard is a couple of dimensions short of reality on offense...
...begins to lose elasticity and sag. Loss of fat around the eyes gives them a sunken look, and the face starts to wrinkle in what starvation experts call the old-man syndrome. The other principal form of starvation, kwashiorkor, is largely a protein-vitamin-mineral deficiency. Its most common symptom: swollen legs and ankles, caused by fluid leaking from blood vessels into the body...