Word: painful
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...Magical Thinking to Broadway. (The kids know that their "new" friend, Ms. Redgrave, was the star of his play.) Rudin tries to translate the profound emotions from that play into language the children can comprehend, comparing the main character's grief at the death of her husband to the pain children feel at the death of a pet. "Nothing is done at random," says Andes. "All our guest have significant ties to each other. We make connections...
...Feeling the Pain As an obstetrician who has always tried to empower women to choose to deliver the safest - yet hardest - way, I must applaud you for your article on the rise of C-sections in Asia [March 31]. The article conveyed well the life philosophy that lies behind the process of natural birth. However, I do object to the image of "stupefied" or "groggy" patients on the operating table. Cesareans are normally done under spinal anesthetic - the woman is fully awake and numb from the lower ribs to the toes. The woman is aware of what's happening...
...cost remains hidden, and the near doubling of the defense budget since 2001 does not cover what lies ahead. Better body armor and trauma care mean new life for thousands of soldiers who would have died in any earlier war. But many are broken or burned or buried in pain from what they saw and did. One in five suffers from major depression or posttraumatic stress, says a new Rand Corp. study; more than 300,000 have suffered traumatic brain injury. The cost of treating them is projected to double over the next 25 years. Four hundred thousand veterans...
Berkshire hasn't been immune from pain. Last quarter, the conglomerate's earnings dropped 64%. Its housing-related firms--Acme Brick, insulation manufacturer Johns Manville, carpetmaker Shaw--have taken hits, with profits down as much as 41% for 2007. Buffett barely blinks. "Is a carpet business in a postbubble period worth less because it's earning less now? No," he says. "If you own a farm and you have a drought once every 10 years, you don't mark down the value of your farm 30% the year of the drought...
...today are too slow to consider the tools and mechanics that proverbial broth-making implies. The collaborative novel, if nothing else, gives us an opportunity to reflect on our technological situation. After all, isn’t laughter “the panacea for the pain of the human experience…like apathy is the icing on the tractor?...