Word: various
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...group consists of people with life threatening illnesses, those with ill relatives, and those grieving over deaths in their families. Lutheran Campus Minister H. Frederick Reisz Jr., who refers people to Life Raft, says the group's organizers thought of splitting up those with different problems. But combining the various groups seems to work best. Staff or faculty members with illnesses can answer the questions of students with dying parents, such as "What do you want from your child right now?" or "How would you like me to deal with this...
Diversity is the raw material of earth's wealth, but nature's true creativity lies in the relationships that link various creatures. The coral in a reef or the orchid in a rain forest is part of an ecosystem, a fragile, often delicately balanced conglomeration of supports, checks and balances that integrate life-forms into functioning communities. Given the complex workings of an ecosystem, it is never clear which species, if any, are expendable...
...tragedy was that the pilot of the Japanese plane was able to talk to ground control for half an hour as he tried unsuccessfully to land his mortally wounded craft. In last week's disaster, there was only silence. A preliminary inquiry showed that the plane's various electronic systems had gone dead simultaneously...
...offenders include toys that break into sharp pieces or contain parts that toddlers can easily choke on. Among them, according to various consumer groups: a Burger King Cheeseburger set made by Multi Toys (the plastic French fries look real and could be swallowed); Spinning Top from Ohio Art (its handle pulls off to expose a sharp metal shaft); and Medical Kit from Blue Box Toys (the plastic instruments break easily...
...daughter of a field marshal, Horn wrote about how she was dragged through various battlesites during the Thirty Years' War and was married and widowed by the time she reached her late twenties. In his book, Mitchell makes the point that Horn's biography is actually an "unintentional novel" and "the most interesting work of Swedish literature of that century...