Often swimming in dirty black water to rescue the old and the sick, people were forced to climb skyscrapers in the crippling heat and carry the helpless down numerous flights of steps.
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This 2009 YouTube photo compilation shows Syria's first lady helping old people and sick children, sitting in classrooms, planting trees, waving and smiling alongside her husband.
The Affordable Care Act requires insurers to sell policies to all comers, old and young, healthy and sick.
The welfare state takes care the non-productive forces of society, the old, the sick and the disable.
The court heard computer records showed searches made that evening on the NHS Direct website for "a three-year-old hurting head and being sick", and a telephone call to a local surgery that was closed.
The quarantine was ordered after a 25-year-old Mexican man stayed in the hotel and became sick, according to the spokesman.
At 40 years old, I felt sick, miserable, and depressed with my current line of work and job, which was product management for a leading membership services organization.
Between April and May last year he told people he was helping a sick five-year-old - Ellie Simpson from Leicestershire - go to Florida and meet Mickey Mouse.
But Brown's radical surgery carries risks at a company that, by his own admission, isn't all that sick -- it's just old and flabby.
Most were the old, the sick or pregnant women, or Hindu priests and stray easterners like Kanchana.
Her husband Mark Daley said he and his 15-year-old daughter are "worried sick".
Many people, not just a few sick people, get old, have some decline in health and die from something.
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In other words, they are learning many of the same things that people do, except they do not get tired or sick, never ask for a raise and when they get too old to function effectively, their hardware can be replaced.
Nor do its old people lie awake worrying - as do many of their generation elsewhere - about falling sick and being left to die, unnoticed for days, in their own home.
Pope BENEDICT XVI: (Through Translator) We are hoping for this because such an encounter of people from all continents should also give the old continent, the host, a new impulse and help us so that we don't only see the sick, the tired and the missed opportunities in the European history.
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