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  • There was Hodgkin's disease, leukemia, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.†   (source)
  • Inner Strength from Desperate Times JAKE HOVENDEN ONLY A HANDFUL OF PEOPLE KNOW THIS about me, but five years ago my father died of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS.†   (source)
  • Ach, unsre Taten selbst so gut als unsre Leiden, Sie hemmen unsres Lebens Gang.†   (source)
  • … human personalities as cybrids on this re-created world… AIs killing Als… irrelevant!†   (source)
  • A colleague read a note from a woman named Nancy, who had lost her mother to ALS.†   (source)
  • ALS is like a lit candle: it melts your nerves and leaves your body a pile of wax.†   (source)
  • I would be constantly confronted with and at the mercy of the Als.†   (source)
  • The millions of Als there probably real-time-shared it the minute it came in over fatline.†   (source)
  • So there are at least two groups out to get you the Als and the bishop of the Shrike Temple.†   (source)
  • Usually Als do business with humans and human machines via the datasphere.†   (source)
  • His look of shock had to be genuine… unless Als were consummate actors.†   (source)
  • The Als used to maintain about a thousand licensed cybrids in the Web.†   (source)
  • But the Als are still interested in the process?†   (source)
  • "Except the Als are smarter than us," I said.†   (source)
  • Humanity dealt with this inconclusively with their early Als.†   (source)
  • In 2003, I was diagnosed with ALS, Lou Gehrig's disease.†   (source)
  • Living with ALS seems a bit like going into the witness protection program.†   (source)
  • She'd have to feed my father because ALS made it so he was incapable of feeding himself.†   (source)
  • CATHERINE ROYCE was diagnosed with ALS when she was fifty-five.†   (source)
  • In 2003, I was diagnosed with ALS, Lou Gehrig's disease.†   (source)
  • There had been a development in the treatment of ALS: an experimental drug that was just gaining passage.†   (source)
  • When they left, the doctor gave them some information on ALS, little pamphlets, as if they were opening a bank account.†   (source)
  • It told of a mother who died from ALS.†   (source)
  • It's moving up my body, this ALS.†   (source)
  • There were other people who suffered from ALS, Morrie knew, some of them famous, such as Stephen Hawking, the brilliant physicist and author of A Brief History of Time .†   (source)
  • Finally, on a hot, humid day in August 1994, Morrie and his wife, Charlotte, went to the neurologist's office, and he asked them to sit before he broke the news: Morrie had amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), Lou Gehrig's disease, a brutal, unforgiving illness of the neurological system.†   (source)
  • His legs needed constant tending (he could still feel pain, even though he could not move them, another one of ALS's cruel little ironies), and unless his feet dangled just the right number of inches off the foam pads, it felt as if someone were poking him with a fork.†   (source)
  • Finally, on a hot, humid day in August 1994, Morrie and his wife, Charlotte, went to the neurologist's office, and he asked them to sit before he broke the news: Morrie had amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), Lou Gehrig's disease, a brutal, unforgiving illness of the neurological system.†   (source)
  • Like everyone else except maybe the current Senate CEO or the Als" garbage removers, I had no idea where the TechnoCore was.†   (source)
  • Rather, I could but there are important reasons why I. do not want my fellow Als to find me investigating.†   (source)
  • Something I had learned only recently and the other AI… or Als knew would be destroyed in my systems crash.†   (source)
  • Worrying about Als turning on us is about as productive as worrying that farm animals are going to revolt.†   (source)
  • The Stables are the old-line Als, some of them dating back to pre-Mistake days; at least one of them gained sentience in the First Information Age.†   (source)
  • Branner and Swayze up at ArtIntel Corp think that the Als are pursuing the evolution of consciousness on a galactic scale.†   (source)
  • I just want to know about-Als, BB.†   (source)
  • We will either have to incorporate the Hyperion system into the Web to allow it FORCE protection, or it will fall to a race which despises and distrusts the Core and all Als.†   (source)
  • More than a hundred and fifty planetary data-spheres mingled their resources within the framework created by six thousand omega-class Als to allow the OCS:HTN to function.†   (source)
  • Perhaps they could not have guessed that the Ousters had the means by which o open the Tombs-although with the Als of the Core one can never know-but they certainly knew that you would turn on both societies, both camps which have injured your family.†   (source)
  • The idea of the Core… the same congregation of Als which advises the Senate and the All Thing and which allows our entire economy, farcaster system, and technological civilization to run … the idea of the Core being in touch with the Ousters was frightening.†   (source)
  • Don't Als know everything?†   (source)
  • So Als get angry?†   (source)
  • The Als had peacefully seceded from human control more than three centuries ago-before my time-and while they continued to serve the Hegemony as allies by advising the All Thing, monitoring the dataspheres, occasionally using their predictive abilities to help us avoid major mistakes or natural disasters, the TechnoCore generally went about its own indecipherable and distinctly nonhuman business in privacy.†   (source)
  • Do Als have families?†   (source)
  • Als can't die.†   (source)
  • I might have felt I had no choice but to embrace the assumption that living with ALS means a life of hardship and isolation.†   (source)
  • I can choose to see ALS as nothing more than a death sentence or I can choose to see it as an invitation--an opportunity to learn who I truly am.†   (source)
  • It was my stepmother, Janey Hovenden, who really had the hardest time when my father was suffering from ALS.†   (source)
  • Inner Strength from Desperate Times JAKE HOVENDEN ONLY A HANDFUL OF PEOPLE KNOW THIS about me, but five years ago my father died of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS.†   (source)
  • A fine peregrine falcon, with her music jingling in the whistling wind als clear, and her creance trailing behind her, was beating along above his head toward the top of one of the elms.†   (source)
  • They read sweet gluey little stories, fat German tear-gulps: Immensee, Höher als die Kirche, Der Zerbrochene Krug.†   (source)
  • 'Der Neffe als Onkel' in a tragic sense—ungeheuer!"†   (source)
  • That was paying for the mater'als and paying me, but none too much, for my work.†   (source)
  • What I've got to do is to work as well as I can with the tools and mater'als I've got in my hands.†   (source)
  • There isn't a gaol in the colony as tight as this we are now in; for I've tried the vartues of two or three on 'em, and I know the mater'als they are made of, as well as the men that made 'em; takin' down being the next step in schoolin', to puttin' up, in all such fabrications."†   (source)
  • Der Mann ist einen Kopf grober als ich.†   (source)
  • /Kodak/, als Sammelname für photographische Erzeugnisse ist falsch und bezeichnet nur die Fabrikate der Eastman-/Kodak/-Company.†   (source)
  • Thus is the proude miller well y-beat, And hath y-lost the grinding of the wheat; And payed for the supper *every deal* *every bit Of Alein and of John, that beat him well; His wife is swived, and his daughter als*; *also Lo, such it is a miller to be false.†   (source)
  • Ye say right sooth; this monk hath clapped* loud; *talked He spake how Fortune cover'd with a cloud I wot not what, and als' of a tragedy Right now ye heard: and pardie no remedy It is for to bewaile, nor complain That that is done, and also it is pain, As ye have said, to hear of heaviness.†   (source)
  • The sorrow of Dorigen he told him als',* *also How loth her was to be a wicked wife, And that she lever had lost that day her life; And that her troth she swore through innocence; She ne'er erst* had heard speak of apparence** *before **see note <31> That made me have of her so great pity, And right as freely as he sent her to me, As freely sent I her to him again: This is all and some, there is no more to sayn."†   (source)
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