Word: painful
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...really be sure that he is expressing his satisfaction? His body may be just "expressing" his satisfaction. Although it appears to all observers that Steve believes he's alive and well, loves his family and is only slightly distracted by the residual pain of his many surgeries, there seems to be a possibility that the apparently animate body standing before us only "believes" it is alive, only "loves" his family and is distracted not by real pain but by "pain," the bogus kind that lacks the je ne sais quoi of genuine pain...
...controversy. The President's Council on Bioethics recently condemned his study as unethical, saying that erasing memories risks undermining a person's true identity. Pitman rejects such notions as a bias against psychiatry. After all, he says, no one suggests that doctors should withhold morphine from people in acute pain on the grounds it might take away part of the experience...
...Gods, who could regret the cloning of the high street when you grew up with all that? Turn your nose up at cappuccinos, lattes, pain au raisins, proper muffins with proper fruit - even if you have to pay through the nose for it? (And let me tell you, all those stories you've heard about how expensive London is? They don't come close to the ghastly truth.) Shed a tear for the "genuinely local coffee shops"? Don't think so. Mine's a triple grande skim latte, and the only regret is that I had to wait until...
...rooms where the need to emote exposes a harshness in her voice. A more serious problem is also her greatest source of strength: she is prohibitively rational, unclouded by undue emotionality. She doesn't get misty and bite her lip in public. She doesn't feel your pain; she understands it. Rationality breeds caution, and caution breeds a lack of spontaneity, which can make her seem cold and calculating. And even if her husband puts his charisma in storage for the campaign, Clinton will be running against a politician, in Barack Obama, who has a public ease and eloquence unmatched...
...course of history," says Arlene Mayerson, a leading expert in disability-rights law, who like many critics feels intense sympathy for these parents. "Many things that were done under a theory of benevolence were later seen as wrongheaded violations of human rights." Medicine's role is to relieve pain and improve function. But Ashley was not suffering, and the treatment was untested. Do we really want to start bending the rules in the case of the disabled just for the promise of some benefit in the future?, advocates...