Word: paines
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...arrived here in 1619, and emancipation came in 1863. That's 244 years of unpaid labor by a total of, say, 10 million slaves. Multiplied by 25 [cents] a day, the going rate for unskilled labor back then, it amounts to $222 billion. Throw in another $222 billion for pain and suffering, and you get $444 billion. At 3% interest compounded over the 134 years since emancipation, that adds up to $24 trillion. Serious money...
...conundrum of Shenyang. Failure to stop the spiraling losses of the state factories could destroy China's economic miracle, yet the cure is an exceedingly bitter one: the dismantling of the system that guaranteed workers lifelong employment and social benefits. Pushing ahead with reform depends on how much pain and suffering people will take before they resort to rebellion. In March, Finance Minister Liu Zhongli acknowledged that reform of the enterprises was "important for the destiny" of the nation, but President Jiang Zemin has been moving ahead very cautiously. He seems to hope half measures like increasing worker shareholding...
First, some background. Researchers have known since the 1960s that not all headaches are the same, medically speaking. Tension headaches, which are the easiest to treat, are triggered by clenched muscles in the head and neck. Migraines, which generate a throbbing pain that is sometimes preceded by an "aura" and can last 12 to 24 hours, are produced by blood vessels that alternately constrict and expand. Cluster headaches are even worse than migraines--if you can imagine such a thing--and scientists suspect that overactive blood vessels play a role in them too. One of the hallmarks of cluster headaches...
...trial and error: they prescribe a treatment and if it doesn't work, they try another until they find a remedy. Now scientists at Ohio University are trying to cut through some of that guesswork by fashioning a simple 15-min. screening test that will tell doctors where the pain occurs, how debilitating it is and what other factors (such as stress) may be contributing to it. The hope is that physicians will be able to determine in advance whether their patients will respond better to drugs or to, say, stress-management therapy--and get the treatment right the first...
...believe that most women are now aware of the evil side of Premarin, a medication that's prescribed to relieve the uncomfortable symptoms of menopause. It's made from the urine of pregnant mares and involves the pain and torture each year of nearly 100,000 helpless adult horses. For most of their 11 months' pregnancy, they are confined and tethered in narrow stalls on concrete floors while catheterized to devices that collect their urine. They can't move more than a step or two in any direction or lie down. And because Premarin farmers receive more money for concentrated...