Word: treating
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...castaways must now swallow a humiliating demotion in status. The waning of superpower rivalry has weakened Cubans' claims to being fugitives from political oppression; instead they are now viewed simply as poor people trying to slip through the door to American prosperity -- even as the U.S. anachronistically continues to treat Havana as it has since the late '50s and '60s: as a dangerous purveyor of subversion and Soviet expansionism...
...worst troglodyte of all Stalinist regimes. And when Bill Clinton extended most-favored-nation tariff treatment to Beijing last May, he argued that "the best path for advancing freedom in China is for the United States to intensify and broaden its engagement with that nation." Why shouldn't he treat Cuba the same way? "I think the circumstances are different" is the best explanation he could manage last week...
That is not to say that the students do not treat their two months of Harvard like summer camp. Weekend trips to Martha's Vineyard or Cape Cod are popular excuses not to study. As are Red Sox games, or Institute of Politics speeches or even street musicians. Boston and Harvard offer so much to do, it becomes difficult to remember the "school" part...
...dysentery epidemic among Rwandan refugees in Goma, Zaire has replaced cholera as the number one killer and could claim up to 45,000 lives. Epidemiologists now say the number of cholera cases has dropped by half, but that dysentery -- a contagious, bloody diarrhea that is much harder to treat -- has more than made up for the decline. U.S. Army convoys delivered 100,000 gallons of fresh water, a triumph over a bottleneck at Goma's tiny airport, but far short of the 1.25 million gallons needed daily to meet the refugees' basic needs...
Even if the doctors manage to treat the diseases, survivors need to be fed and sheltered. Goma alone requires 600 metric tons of food a day, 1 million blankets, 200,000 rolls of plastic sheeting, 200,000 jerricans, 80 water tankers and 90 to 100 trucks to carry food the 497 miles from the Ugandan capital of Entebbe -- and these numbers are sure to grow. When the Red Cross began its food distribution, a child was trampled when the crowd, desperate that there would not be enough to go around, surged forward. "If it runs out, or if it doesn...