Word: pus
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...prayed over him for 46 days. On Day 44, a police officer acting on a tip paid a call but left after the boy himself claimed good health. Alex died two days later; his autopsy revealed an infection had filled one entire side of his chest with pus. Basic antibiotics, says Lewman, could have saved...
...administrators feared that the questions might further divide the cam- pus, and ultimately the Committee on Undergraduate Research Projects (CURP), led by Dean K. Whitla, associate director of admissions, decided not to let the project continue...
...alcohol-related accident. Why, then, does Epps feel it necessary to justify his actions with silly puritanical statements like, "Intoxication is associated with every form of adverse behavior occurring at Harvard"? Is alcohol associated with what is clearly the most prevalent form of adverse behavior on cam pus--moral posturing...
...guess what? The kid can write. Like Jackson Pollock with a paint tube, Stone squeezes the pus and purple out of his gaudy youth. The book is like a huge scenario from some gifted, twisted lad--Oliver Stone, age 20--that the older Stone chopped down and published. But the two are eerie twins. They share the need to go too far, to push the vocabulary of words and pictures. The young Stone even envisions himself in the '90s, a zillionaire aswirl in controversy. "Of course many rumors abounded about me, mostly sinister...
They used to. Nursing was long regarded not as labor but as a labor of love, and women--the profession remains 96% female--were expected to serve selflessly, lifting 200-lb. patients all day and working nights and weekends up to their elbows in blood and pus. In 1987 staff nurses, on average, made $22,000 to start and $30,000 after 20 years on the job--often less than (male) hospital maintenance workers with eighth-grade educations. Then in the late 1980s a severe nursing shortage gave the profession the leverage to win compensation commensurate with skill. Today...