Word: things
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...live in the present is like proposing to sit on a pin," wrote Chesterton. Science makes a more severe judgment. It calls living in the present psychotic. Not happy-go-lucky, devil-may-care living in the present, but the real thing. Some individuals by reason of accident or disease (generally alcoholism) suffer from what is called Korsakoff's psychosis: they have no memory. Not that they have forgotten their ancient childhood memories. They often retain these. But they have lost entirely the capacity to establish new memories. Everything they see, everything they hear, everything they think, they forget within...
...RIGHT THING Directed and Written by Spike...
...least 100 patient- outcomes projects will be under way, with sponsors as diverse as the Cleveland Clinic and the Maine Medical Assessment Foundation. High on the list of treatments to be studied are those for cataracts, diabetes and broken hips (the question: When is replacing the hip the best thing to do?). A report in the New England Journal of Medicine suggested that one type of prostate surgery works better than an increasingly popular alternative operation. The American Urological Association is planning an intensive comparative study of the long-term prospects of patients who undergo one of the two procedures...
...sweetest little thing?" Calvin whispers. "I'd like to make a pet of her." Suddenly the mother rhino wheels and storms at the guests, who jump away from the fence. As Chula nudges the baby back to the safety of the tall grass, the raspy warning grunt of a wild rhinoceros saws through the quiet of the south Texas twilight...
...intifadeh and that they are unafraid to meet Israelis when they know we can jail them on the flimsiest of pretexts means it might really be possible to achieve a peaceful solution -- which is exactly what Shamir is against. To him, calm talk can lead only to the thing he fears most, a Palestinian state in the West Bank...