Word: sickening
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that, according to Jacob Fabrikant, an expert on the biological effects of radiation, is "far too low to pose a risk to the health of individuals." Yet there is agreement that radiation doses of more than 50 rems, a measure of the effect of radiation on the body, can sicken and even kill. It may do so by changing the chemical makeup of cells. A large enough dose can cause genetic defects and lead to cancer. Massive exposure in a brief period can result in radiation sickness and death within a short time...
...pattern established by a similar study in Massachusetts published last year. Not all of these newborns, however, are doomed. Doctors estimate that more than half received only antibodies -- not the virus itself -- from their mothers during gestation. These lucky ones will not develop AIDS. The others, however, will eventually sicken, most before...
...those numbers will multiply to 270,000 cases and 179,000 deaths -- 74,000 new cases and 54,000 deaths during 1991 alone, costing between $8 billion and $16 billion annually in health care. Unhappily, these numbers are not mere guesswork: the vast majority of those who will sicken and die over the next five years already have the AIDS virus in their bodies. An estimated 1 million to 1.5 million people in the U.S. have been infected by HIV (for human immunodeficiency virus), the currently preferred term for the AIDS-causing agent. The academy calculates that at least...
...inconsistency of the film, not the weakness of specific moments, that detract from its effectiveness. At the end of the film, Varda suddenly and incongruously makes us feel sad when we watch Mona sicken, cry and freeze. One could try to explain away this sadness as a more universal quality than just sympathy for a pathetic girl. Maybe what you feel is regret at man's mortality and realization of the unavoidable limits of freedom, but this is pushing...
...Hireling Shepherd, 1851-52. This sunny, pastoral scene of two rustics flirting was actually a warning against the re-establishment of the Roman Catholic Church in England. The girl in the red skirt refers to the scarlet woman of Rome; the lamb in her lap is about to sicken from the green apple of false knowledge it has bitten; the sheep, wandering unattended into the corn, are the strayed flock of the Anglican clergy...