Sentences with phrase «stories of sick children»

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The personalized and «humanized» stories — where we learned that Mitt helped out individuals with children who died and were sick and all that sort of stuff — was enough, despite my cynical resistance, to elicit a moist and salty discharge from the tear ducts near my eyes.

This week alone, I have listened to stories of bitterness and unforgiveness, adoption struggles, death and sickness, betrayal and addictions, loss and grief, sleepless nights with sick children, and longings unfulfilled in the hearts and lives of people I love and there are more questions than answers.

There was almost always enough time to fix a broken fence, treat and stroke a sick animal, collect grain that had spilled in the field, tell an amusing story or answer the questions of an eager child.

At just 27, she is full of stories — bringing just one pair of clothes to what turned out to be week's worth of disaster relief work, getting phone calls from Korea at 3 a.m., traveling from Bolivia to the U.S. with a child in need of life - saving surgery only to have the nurse get sick and the child push her in a wheelchair through the airport.

We have long been fascinated with easy slime recipes here on Red Ted Art, but confess to have never really gotten «into it»... mainly because many of the «main» and popular slime recipes use borax or laundry detergent — and a) borax is banned here in the UK and b) laundry detergents vary and c) recently... there have been stories about burns from slime recipes and children getting sick from playing with borax slime (read all about why you shouldn't make slime here).

For a decade, Fukui recounts, stories have been reported of elderly children tending their frail, sick parents, and lately there are reports of seniors dying alone in Tokyo housing projects, some by their own hand, «without notice, and found days, sometimes months, later.»

Stories about sick children might not work on some parents for several reasons, says Betsch, including a quirk of the human mind called omission bias.

Despite research suggesting it would backfire, a new study finds that stories and images of sick children can change minds about the need to vaccinate.

When we see the dreadful famines in Africa, it is the pictures of the starving children that persuade us to donate; when we see people suffering through illnesses, it is the images of sick children that call us to action; and, when we see the tragic stories on the news, it is those that involve children, such as the Dunblane massacre, that fill us with greatest sadness and most anger.

Ms. Gallagher called the work an example of magic realism, a story about the highway «as a sick child,» she said.

In the weeks following the rupture of the Exxon Mobil Pegasus pipeline that spilled hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil (or tar sands diluted bitumen) into a Mayflower, Arkansas neighborhood and lake, the news about the spill was just one depressing story after the next as we learned that wildlife had been oiled, local residents, including children, were becoming sick, contaminated water was pumped into the lake, the media was being intimidated to reduce access and coverage and that Exxon may have known about the spill earlier than they are letting on.

With numerous success stories about their product transforming the lives of sick children, I had No Isolation's AV1 replace me at work for a day to get a better idea of how it actually works.