Word: heartedly
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...have finally emerged from the Dark Ages of food labeling into the Renaissance that the public deserves," said Dr. Francois Abboud, president of the American Heart Association, at the prospect of the labeling changes. The reform, he said, would be useful to "millions of Americans who want to reduce their risk of heart and blood-vessel diseases." Earlier this year the A.H.A., bowing to criticism and threatened federal action, scrapped its own HeartGuide seal-of-approval program just two months after it started. "Right now, any product can say it's high-fiber this and bran that," agreed Nancy Hailpern...
...most touching and poignant cases encountered by C.C.U. staffers concerned a gravely ill youth named Carmelo. The boy had a chronic renal condition, epilepsy and heart trouble that left him, at 14, just 43 in. tall and dependent on dialysis and a battery of medications. In addition, family troubles had rendered him angry and very lonely. For more than a year, the C.C.U. "doctors" spent time with the teenager, who rarely talked and refused to walk. Then one day comic magician Mark Mitton taught him a "mind-reading" card game, and Carmelo began to open up. The boy took great...
...shoes and was on his feet as a $2-a-day C.C.U. performer. Immensely proud of his new occupation, the boy found the will to battle against mounting odds far longer than his doctors expected. His condition began deteriorating rapidly last winter, however; in July, two months after open-heart surgery, he died...
...they deposited their nine-month-old daughter with his mother; within the year, they also dropped off their three-year-old son. The moves were only temporary -- at first. But the children's mother announced that she wanted to live her own life. In 1986 Terry died of a heart attack. With that, Duggan resolved to raise her grandchildren as if they were her own offspring. Now her travel plans have been supplanted by worries about how she will save enough money for her grandson's medical-school education. "Of course, I love the children," she says...
...thought of trying to stop Brown's Ivy League-leading offensive unit may not bring joy to Harvard Coach Joe Restic's heart. But the thought of facing one of the league's worst-rated defenses might give Restic some reason to smile...