Word: paines
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Perhaps, but that hasn't made it any easier. It took Barak 10 hours of haggling with his cabinet behind closed doors last week before they voted 10-2 to accept the plan in principle. "There is an opportunity, despite the pain," Barak pleaded. Israel wouldn't swallow all of Clinton's ideas, he assured his cabinet. "I will not sign an agreement that transfers sovereignty on the [Temple] Mount to the Palestinians," the Prime Minister insisted. His army chief, Lieut. General Shaul Mofaz, also warned the cabinet that "there are a lot of gaps in the American plan...
...finds anvils "unsafe"). But I was not optimistic. We wince when we see these men fall. We fear for them. Strap Acme rocket shoes to Bush, and you'll spend months cleaning up the mess. No, the irony of Bill Clinton is that he may have felt our pain, but we didn't feel his. We just listened joyously for which funny sound he'd make as he bounced happily off the canyon floor...
...troubled family, to see what makes them unique--and universal. Yang is like the family's wise young son (Jonathan Chang) who takes pictures of the backs of people's heads. "You couldn't see it," he says, "so I showed you." Yang takes pictures of the pain in people's souls...
...Pain will propel most people to a doctor's office faster than just about any other complaint. It's usually a sign that something is wrong--though it's not always clear just what the problem is. Doctors can't measure pain objectively the way they can blood pressure or cholesterol levels. So when pain doesn't immediately respond to treatment, physicians and patients often--too often--accept it as just another symptom that has to be lived with...
...Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, the group responsible for certifying the quality and safety of the majority of hospitals, nursing homes and clinics in the U.S. Starting Jan. 1, these medical facilities will have to show that they meet certain standards for the assessment and treatment of pain in all their patients. Failure to meet the standards, which were jointly developed with the University of Wisconsin Medical School in Madison, could lead to a financially devastating loss of the right to treat Medicare and Medicaid patients...