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...word means "village people," but that prosaic definition masks the discomfort still felt by a minority that had been branded an untouchable class during Japan's samurai era of the 17th century. In those days, the burakumin were social outcasts: the butchers, tanners and waste-handlers who fell to the bottom of the heap in a five-tier caste system. The archaic social structure went the way of the shoguns during Japan's Meiji transformation in the late 19th century. Yet the burakumin still exist on the fringes of this mostly homogenous society, and fight the age-old battles...
...condition that is so easy to pick up is becoming almost as easy to shake, usually without resort to drugs. What turns up the wattage of a phobia the most is the strategy the phobics rely on to ease their discomfort: avoidance. The harder phobics work to avoid the things they fear, the more the brain grows convinced that the threat is real. "The things you do to reduce anxiety just make it worse," says Barlow. "We have to strip those things away...
...wear them because I need them. But they're clunky, they're ugly, they look prosthetic," says Battat of SHHH. "I'm longing for Calvin Klein to start designing hearing aids." Many people who have tried hearing aids before the technology surge of the past 10 years found the discomfort and embarrassment of wearing them outweighed the benefit they provided. Bad experience can be contagious as well. "In audiology we say that if someone likes their hearing aids, they tell five people," says Rezen. "If someone hates their hearing aids, they'll tell...
...related incidents accounted for 27% of all first aid treatment. "It's the sitting still that does the damage," says Patrick Kesteven, a consultant hematologist at the Freeman Hospital in Newcastle, northern England. "And the one place that 99% of us sit still longest, in the most discomfort, is on an airplane...
...Clots can form at various points in the leg, causing varying degrees of discomfort. ?You?ve got valves four-to-six inches up all of your veins,? says Kesteven. With DVT, ?you may form a little lump of a clot behind one of the valves.? Although the clots themselves are not life-threatening, the complications can be. The most serious is a pulmonary embolism?which occurs in 25-30% of DVT cases?when a piece of the clot breaks off and travels to the lung. In rare instances, part of a clot may lodge in other organs, including the brain...