Word: painful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...inward as the glad-handing Clinton turned outward. New acquaintances traded tales of his bad haircuts, dirty glasses and odd rocking motion. His early reluctance to give to charity--which he's recently begun to abandon--added to a perception that he lacked the Clintonian ability to feel others' pain...
...pain caused by homework isn't just emotional. Carl Glassman, father of two girls who attend public school in New York City, reports that last year his eldest daughter missed much of her first semester in sixth grade because of pneumonia, "due to the fact that she was doing homework until 11 every night." Laura Mandel, the New Jersey mother of three, found her son Jeffrey, 6, suffering homework-related nightmares this month when she tried gently to rouse him for school. "Oh, Mom," he pleaded, half asleep, "don't tell me there's another homework sheet...
Admittedly, even if we genuinely attempted to empathize with all the significant suffering that exists outside our ivory tower, it probably wouldn't help us feel all that much better. Perspective is important--indeed necessary--but all pain is relative. Every January this campus becomes a crucible of stress and anxiety. For those who have trouble coping, the health travails of the Russian premiere are understandably little solace. And yet, sometimes, one of the best ways to hunker down is to derive at least some small, sick and twisted satisfaction in the fact that someone has it worse than...
...sometimes they are incredibly beautiful, and even at times extremely happy. I always consider how our culture's overwhelming fear of death blots out that reality: we rarely achieve a whole view of dying, which encompasses every emotion." He believes suicide is never the best choice, focusing instead on pain relief. His determina- tion to ensure a peaceful end to life may be reassuring to those baby boomers who remain determined not to age gracefully...
These results come as a bit of a surprise. Although beta-blockers have been used safely for decades to treat hypertension, chest pain and heart attacks, most physicians believed they were too dangerous to give to patients suffering from congestive heart failure...