Psychologists suggest that to cure cruelty

We can infer that when the patient heard her colleagues talking

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   it was during the early evening
   
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   she had virtually given up trying to stay alive
   
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   she realized that she had a fatal illness
   
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   they were not allowed to go into her hospital room
   

2. The old lady

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   lost her faith after her illness
   
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   was the most important member of the work team
   
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   was unable to receive visitors when she was ill
   

D) worked in new fields of study in education

3. The writer concludes that in fighting illness, it is important to

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   have friends and colleagues around you
   
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   be able to rely on your doctor
   
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   have a purpose in life
   
4. 
   hear others speaking
   

How many people can the earth hold? Will birth and death rates continue to 1 decline? Can food production keep pace with population growth? Can technology I supplement or replace today's resources? What are the long-term effects of pollution 1 on health, climate, and farm production? Debate over such issues has spawned I many volumes, as scholars look to the future with varying degrees of optimism and 1 gloom. In a lecture titled "The Terror of Change", Patricia Gulas Strauch cited three I aspects of our future about which there is little disagreement: the speed of change I will accelerate; the world will be increasingly complex; and nations and world issues I will be increasingly interdependent. Today's problems - which face Third World 1 megacities in particular - cannot be ignored by developed countries. We cannot look I to the past for solutions as there is no precedent for such growth. We are in 1 uncharted, challenging waters.

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