Word: painful
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...Sad” is the album’s last—and most emotionally revealing—track. It’s slower, it’s closer to her old sound—and it’s clearly directed at KFed. Spears reflects on her pain before declaring “it is time to move along.” The song ends optimistically, as does the album. Of course, in real life, a judge in Los Angeles will be the one to decide whether those hit-and-run charges stick, and whether 2007 will be Spears?...
...What can be changed, however, is the way doctors listen and react to their patients' physical concerns. If a woman complains of chest pain, for example, but says it only bothers her when she's feeling tense or pressured - and not on the treadmill or climbing a flight of stairs - her doctor should interpret her anxiety as a genuine risk factor, says Brotman. "The trigger is emotional, and physicians tend to blow that off," he says...
...good for a chef to see every stage of the main ingredient? -Erasmo Zayas, Calexico, Calif.I think it's both useful and appropriate to experience the shame, guilt and discomfort of seeing what the real cost of dinner is. That said, who likes to see an animal in pain, except for Ted Nugent? I dearly love pork, but seeing a pig die is a pretty bloodcurdling experience...
...electricity in torture across the world, there's a thought that law enforcement could use [the Taser] to the same end," says Lt. Dave Kelly of the Phoenix Police Department. "In other words, not to use it to gain control over somebody but to punish somebody, to create pain for someone...
...difference in scores between the groups on the explicit tests of emotion and affect. But in the implicit tests of nonconscious emotion - the wordplay - researchers found that the students who were preoccupied with death tended to generate significantly more positive-emotion words and word matches than the dental-pain group. DeWall thinks this mental coping response kicks in immediately when confronted with a serious psychological threat. In subsequent research, he has analyzed the content of the volunteers' death essays and found that they're sprinkled with positive words. "When you ask people, 'Describe the emotions that the thought of your...