Word: hurtfulness
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...Chinese fans have grown accustomed to seeing Yao out with an injury. While he has noticeably toughened up over his seven seasons in the NBA, he has often been hurt. In February 2008 he suffered a stress fracture in his left foot that kept him out of the NBA playoffs, but he returned to play for his country in the Beijing Olympics. He carried China's flag into the Olympic stadium and led the Chinese men to the quarterfinals, where they lost to Lithuania. This past NBA season was the first since 2004-05 that he didn't miss...
This weekend the critics acclaimed a new action movie - a story of men and robots at war against a group of machines that could destroy part of the planet. That film was The Hurt Locker, about U.S. soldiers defusing bombs in Baghdad. It opened at just four theaters in New York City and Los Angeles and earned $144,000, for a robust screen average of $36,000. Meanwhile, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, another movie with war and robots and stuff blowing up - and which the critics roundly denounced - earned $26,000 per screen. But it invaded 4,234 screens...
...fleecing the public on a summer weekend, Transformers 2 will pass through the entertainment alimentary system and be forgotten, except by the filmmakers and their accountants, until 2012, when another installment will rise to repeat the process. The forlorn minority of critics hope that, sometime before then, The Hurt Locker will have found the audience it deserves...
...introduced herself to the world with something she called her HIV prayer. "Hello, HIV, you trespasser," Thembi would say. "You are in my body. You have to obey the rules. You have to respect me, and if you don't hurt me, I won't hurt you. You mind your business, I'll mind mine...
...cheating spouse to make sure he earns forgiveness, and not just by saying he's sorry and showing remorse. He has to do the time-consuming work of listening - for hour after hour, if necessary - to how much and in how many ways he has hurt his spouse. He has to commit to understanding what she needs to feel safe in the future, and to doing those things. And they both have to commit to healing the broken parts of their marriage and revitalizing it. (Read about marriage savers...