George C. Osborne of Lakewood, N.J., sent, without explanation, a sort of shopping list of modern ills.

I found the article 'Old angle on modern ills', by David Simpson (Business, 16 February), of considerable interest.

His central argument is that the root cause of our modern ills is the frustration of the human creative instinct.

The cartoon reflects modern social ills and avoids overtly political ones.

Never mind that baseball purists would later blame the Dome for many of the modern ills of the game.

Having a famous name above the doorway does not immunize a school against modern ills, and no amount of nostalgia can alter that fact.

Abruzzi towns like Ortona are thriving with small industries, and the children don't suffer from hunger and disease but, if anything, from modern ills like drugs.

The insular society seems to have escaped such modern ills as drug addiction, alcoholism, violent crime, AIDS and automobile congestion.

Zulu leaders, however, called virginity tests a revered tradition ideally suited to address modern ills.

This can lead to inflammation, which is implicated in a host of modern ills, from heart disease to diabetes to depression.