Word: pains
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...pain is still fresh in this usually bright city, and there is some hesitation to squarely blame authorities for not investing enough in basic infrastructures used primarily by working class people-like the subway-while the city spends handsomely in eye-catching projects like next year's yachting America's Cup, a state of the art cultural and science theme park, or the papal visit. "I've been driving [trains] over that section for 19 years," Trigo, the union member, told TIME, "and nothing like this had ever happened before." The regional government says, and the unions acknowledge, that...
...preparing a monumental commission for his native country's pavilion at the 1937 International Exhibition of Arts and Sciences. The outraged artist, never particularly passionate about politics, threw aside his planned work The Studio: the Painter and his Model, and began to create his masterpiece, a monochrome scream of pain and horror...
...this glum scenario? To close our fiscal gap, we face a menu of pain: raise income taxes 70%, hike payroll taxes 109%, cut Social Security and Medicare a combined 41%, eliminate 79% of federal discretionary spending, or some combination. Waiting only makes the options worse and could lead to hyperinflation. Countries that can't cover their spending with taxes end up printing money to pay their bills. That leads to runaway prices, sky-high interest rates, a weakening currency and economic decline...
...worried about the impact of James Nachtwey's photos of grieving, anguished Congolese. There is a heroism about the images, but there is also a romantic artistry that blunts the pain, and they suggest too strongly the presence of attentive and receptive helpers. We Americans know far too little about Africa and pay too little attention. But would we turn so blind an eye to the death, in less than a decade, of 6% of our own population at the hands of warring parties? I hope not. Doug Watson Shawnee, Oklahoma...
...examiners presented patient scenarios in rapid-fire sequence. A 45-year-old woman with persistent headaches. A 60-year-old man with unrelenting facial pain. A three-year-old child who has never been able to walk. We had to study the data, ask the right questions and make on-the-spot diagnoses. Our interlocutors had finely tuned poker faces and were instructed to give absolutely no feedback. I had no idea if they thought I was the greatest neurosurgeon who ever lived or totally out to lunch...