Word: discomforts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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...
...implication that the Fly's decision was made with the best interests of women at heart is as offensive as it is preposterous. And the claim that women will be spared the embarrassment and discomfort that they would be sure to feel as new club members is nothing short of condescension...
...recent months as Washington's Smithsonian Institution shuffled through one script after another, trying to figure out how to deal with Hiroshima in a 50th-anniversary exhibition about the end of the war and the dawn of the nuclear era. Around the Smithsonian, the task brought on profound moral discomfort -- historiographical hives...