Word: ward
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...actually tried to commit suicide at 21. I drank furniture polish. I had no purpose in life, and I thought it was all over. I checked myself into an observation ward [in a hospital] for a while because I knew I was suicidal. I wanted to get some help. And I had an epiphany. I saw people who had profound emotional problems. These people were manic-depressives and paranoid schizophrenics. I looked around and said to myself, I don't have any problems. I realized all I was doing was being absurdly self-absorbed and giving in to self-pity...
...trigger for this turnaround, surprisingly enough, was vaccine research's most notable failure. In the 1980s, as the AIDS epidemic began to spread, scientists tried to fight it as they had polio and chickenpox--by crippling the virus and using it to train a patient's immune system to ward off the real infection. Nobody really understood how the process worked at the molecular level, but until AIDS came along, that didn't matter much...
...that's undoubtedly only the beginning. Just a decade ago, medical science despaired of ever finding vaccines that would be able to ward off illnesses like malaria and tuberculosis, which have plagued humanity for thousands of years, and AIDS, which looked as though it might turn out to be even deadlier than these ancient killers. The notion that this venerable disease-prevention strategy would prove effective against these and others seemed farfetched...
...There’s a lot of construction going on,” Ward said. “He was probably intending to go on I-40 East, but it’s easy to go on I-40 West if you’re not very familiar with the area. I’ve done it myself...
...Ward said Wiley was probably disoriented due to “a long day, with lots of fatigue and stress,” and because of drinking wine after the conference, although she said it is not possible to accurately determine blood alcohol content post-mortem...