Word: sighting
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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There had never been such a sight at the entrance to the U.S. Capitol. Dozens of disabled people abandoned their wheelchairs and crawled up the steep stone steps on knees, elbows and backs. The climb was not really necessary. The Capitol is equipped with ramps and elevators for wheelchairs. But the point was to rally support for the Americans with Disabilities Act, which would require public buildings and transportation systems to accommodate the disabled...
American Express has tried for months to sell part of its 60% stake in the firm. The financial giant even talked with Sanford Weill, the former head of Shearson who sold the brokerage to American Express in 1981. Finally, with no buyers in sight, Chief Executive James Robinson announced last week that American Express would purchase the rest of Shearson from shareholders in a stock-swap deal valued at $350 million. The parent company plans to cut its losses by rapidly shrinking its subsidiary. Last week it began laying off 2,000 of Shearson's 35,500 employees...
...losing battle, even against their will? When a patient's time is short and his wishes are clear, many doctors these days would say no to life-at-all-costs heroics. Overtreatment of the terminally ill strikes physicians as both wasteful and inhumane. And patients living within sight of death often find themselves more concerned with the quality of the life that remains than with its quantity. Once reconciled to the inevitable, they want to die with dignity, not tethered to a battery of machines in an intensive- care unit like a laboratory specimen under glass...
Stories of seemingly miraculous recoveries may grab the public's attention, but the real work is being done quietly and out of sight. In laboratories around the world, medical researchers are exploring the mind-body connection, separating myth from reality, intuition from fact, belief from science. Much of this work centers on the actions of neuropeptides, molecular messengers that travel through the body linking the nervous, immune and endocrine systems. In the 1970s neuropharmacologist Candace Pert at the National Institute of Mental Health found that these peptides bind to receptors on a cell, beginning a cascade of biomedical effects, including...
Among the worst offenders are public cholesterol-screening programs. Such centers, already a familiar sight in supermarkets and shopping malls in some parts of the U.S., may become even more common in the wake of a Government report issued last week. The report recommended a low-fat, low-cholesterol diet for everyone, not just those at risk for heart disease...