Word: discomfort
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Then, maybe, you'll be feeling just a tiny fraction of the discomfort that the Harvard men's hockey team suffered in its heartbreaking 4-3 loss to Rensselaer last night at Bright Hockey Center...
...chapters on childhood are marvelously, sometimes frighteningly, detailed. Both parents had all their teeth out before leaving for Africa. It was considered a sort of prophylactic, but one that subjected them to a lifetime of discomfort. Tigger sewed, cooked, tended to animals routinely: there is a wonderfully precise description of how to sit a hen and how to candle an egg. The remnant of civilized life that every woman sought was a bolt of Liberty fabric. Lessing apparently has a formidable sense of smell. Before easy dry cleaning, everybody's clothes smelled bad. Nuns -- she attended a convent school...
...Center, which is affiliated with the prestigious Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. The study gave patients L-dopa, an amino acid that stimulates dopamine -- the brain's mood-regulating chemical messenger -- in order to observe psychotic breakdowns, allegedly without advising them on consent forms of the extreme discomfort and high risk of the undertaking. When Vera Hassner, an advocate for the mentally ill, complained to the project director, she received a letter that stated, "Patients may experience symptom aggravation . . . It would not be advisable to talk to patients about psychosis or relapse . . . Talking to patients about psychosis...
...both men and women preferred receiving it to giving it. But who would have guessed that so many white, college- educated men would have done it (about 80%) and so few blacks (51%)? Skip Long, a 33-year-old African American from Raleigh, North Carolina, thinks his race's discomfort with oral sex may owe much to religious teaching and the legacy of slavery: according to local legend, it was something slaves were required to do for their masters. Camille Paglia is convinced that oral sex is % a culturally acquired preference that a generation of college students picked...
...nation with deep commitments to equality, the idea that some individuals are inherently more intelligent than others understandably engenders discomfort. And, to make matters worse, Murray explores the dimension of race in his analysis of the heritability of intelligence...