Word: bed
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Part of the answer is that modern society makes it possible for us to live all night as though it were day, and offers us innumerable temptations with which to fill the time. Have you started to go to bed later since you were hooked up to the Internet at home? Did your parents start to go to bed later when they got television? Did their parents stay up listening to the radio, and their grandparents reading by electric light? Another part of the answer is the national work-ethic, which is closely linked to the ambition for ever-increasing...
...ascetic New England soul, it was located by a smelly swamp--and it wasn't even finished. Nevertheless, when he got there he accepted what some called "Washington's palace," went in to do a little work, had supper and then, taking a candle, went up to bed--no doubt still wondering at the raw loneliness of that new building...
...written in the U.S. to prevent overtreatment, 1 in 10 dying Americans said in a survey that his wishes were ignored. Too often, in the words of the Rev. George Caldwell, who ministers to the dying in Virginia, people die in "the final, tiny, helpless cosmos of a hospital bed...
...Barbara Lane, 53, and suffering from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Haven House, a 20-bed residential hospice in North Atlanta, is living up to its name. ALS invariably kills, but the timing is hard to predict, which runs afoul of the hospice requirement that a patient certifiably have no more than six months to live. Coverage can be extended only if deterioration is continuous or if death is predictable within subsequent six-month periods. Doctors determined that they could not certify Lane, after she had spent a year in her original hospice, a third time, but Haven House executive director Metta...
...Congress expanded and strengthened the law, in addition to renaming it in memory of Jeanne Ann Cleary, a Lehigh University freshman who on the morning of April 5, 1986 was beaten, raped and murdered in her bed by a fellow student...