Word: wronged
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...researchers from HSPH and Harvard Medical School (HMS) studied misuse of medicine--dangerously wrong prescriptions and treatment--at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston...
Especially hard to keep track of are patients' medications. This ignorance is dangerous because the wrong mixture of drugs can lead to violent reactions in patients...
Representative democracy is the wrong model for the council as it currently works. It probably never occurred to the current council's founders to do it any differently; they must have said the Pledge of Allegiance a few too many times in elementary school. But to paraphrase Kent Brockman, I've said it before and I'll say it again: democracy just doesn't work on this campus...
...local flowers. According to new studies by the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Alan Guttmacher Institute, that's pretty much the script in one third of American public schools. Such abstinence-only programs, which are particularly widespread in the South, keep the lesson simple: Sex before marriage is wrong, and contraception does very little to keep pregnancies or STDs at bay. Critics charge that abstinence programs ignore the realities of teenage sex and, by keeping kids in the dark about safe sex, contribute to America's relatively high incidence of teen STDs and pregnancy...
...remote field - or acute apathy, manifested by prolonged yawning and a profound desire for the whole thing to be over and done with. For those remaining citizens vacillating between panic and nonchalance, the White House released a statement Monday designed to quell any nagging fears: Things will go wrong on December 31, 1999, says Clinton Y2K guru John Koskinen, but the vast majority of mishaps will be due to ordinary, everyday glitches, unrelated to the calendar date...