Word: painful
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...predictability. Yet boys are all about disorder: digging in the dirt, scuffed knees, taking apart Dad's favorite portable radio to "see how it works," learning the rules and etiquette of street basketball. As the article points out, boys learn best by doing. The inevitable bits of temporary pain that occur through mistakes and failures forge the common sense and confidence that allow young boys to successfully navigate through life as young...
Mark Kukis' story on the Karbala attacks really put a human face on the cold statistics of the casualties and suffering in Iraq [Aug. 6]. It was impossible to deny the reality of violence and pain that so many soldiers see in Iraq. Regardless of varying opinions on the war, we can all agree that our soldiers are amazing heroes. Along with their families, they deserve our nation's continued love and support...
...folks might get that impression. Mitt Romney recently got a taste for why polls show health care topping voters' concerns when, while he was stumping in a New Hampshire diner, a self- described working-class waitress with three sick children kept upbraiding the polished multimillionaire for not feeling her pain...
...were destroying the country and Graham went along. It was an exchange so vile, it raised the legitimate question of what exactly a President would have to do for Graham to stop consoling and begin confronting him on moral grounds. "I did misjudge him," Graham told us, and the pain of what he had said in the rarefied air of the Oval Office clearly still lingered more than 35 years later. "I don't understand it," he said. "I never thought that way, and I was just trying to agree with what he said or something...
...published in an online edition of the Journal of General Internal Medicine, asked over 200 mostly white resident physicians to prescribe treatment to hypothetical patients based only on a picture of a man’s face and a description of the patient’s sharp chest pain. All of the hypothetical conditions were the same, except for the fact that some of the men were white and others were black. A great deal more of the physicians prescribed thrombolysis for the white men than did for the black...