Word: concerned
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Common to all of these is the concern about aloneness, the dread of abandonment, the fear of a meaningless existence. Sometimes it is associated with anger at the perceived devaluation and rejection (the famous psychiatrist Karl Menninger said two people are often killed with each suicide); sometimes with feelings of guilt, inadequacy or fear of criticism that are so great one punishes oneself rather than being punished by others...
...percent of individuals infected with chlamydia (the most common STI on college campuses), gonorrhea, and/or other bacterial infection, symptoms never appear. However, if left untreated, these infection often lead to complications such as sterility, cervical cancer, and/or pelvic inflammatory disease. STI infection should be of particular concern to sexually active women, as infection are more easily transmitted to women than to men. In addition, health problems associated with STIs are often more common and serious in women than in men. Early diagnosis of infection is key--many of the most common STIs (including chlamydia and gonorrhea) can be cured with...
...life has been dominated by one issue: survival. Concern for himself, politically and physically, has been so overpowering that every decision he makes--from a car journey to the appointment of a general--is a function of "Will this make me safer?" He started with nothing. The villagers in his native Peam Koh Sna, four hours up the Mekong River from Phnom Penh, remember him as a clever, quiet boy. He displayed "a talent to persuade people by speaking," according to Chin Tho, 58, who farms tobacco along the river. But Hun Sen's family was poorer than average...
...produced Wilson's 1998 album, Imagination, and is serving as the music director of Wilson's tour. As such, Thomas is but the latest in a long line of Wilson collaborators and semi-Svengalis (his Billy Ray Cyrus haircut and penchant for tinkly electronic keyboards are cause for concern among some fans...
...that, of course, is neither Jay's, nor Kureishi's, concern. Instead, Kureishi succeeds in creating a vivid portrait of one particular man's experience with one particular woman--a portrait that bears a striking resemblance to the author's own life. The reader does not have to like Jay for this to be powerful, if not exactly joyous, reading...