Word: suffere
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bhopal and elsewhere, medical authorities last week began to grow concerned about the long-term effects of exposure to methyl isocyanate. While there is no evidence that the chemical causes cancer, doctors in Bhopal believe that many survivors of the accident may suffer from emphysema, asthma or bronchitis. In addition, some medical experts suspect that the poisoning could result in damage to the liver and the kidneys, and could have other even more harrowing effects. "The gas affects the central nervous system," said Dr. Sanjay Mittal, a doctor at Hamidia Hospital. "In my opinion, this increases the chances of permanent...
...That's not how somebody's life works," she says, attacking the stereotype. But many Harvard students who don't suffer a disability, Chertkov says, "never get past that...
...other hand, the parents had been told that the purpose was to test a procedure that might help other babies in the future (i.e., that it was experimental), what right did they have to volunteer a child-even their child-to suffer on behalf of humanity...
...extraordinary response. It certainly could not have improved his sleep. It did not even solve the ethical dilemma. After all, the Salk children were put at risk, and they were no less innocent than the rest. But by involving his own kin (and himself), Salk arranged to suffer with the others if his science failed. He crossed the line that separates user from used. By joining his fate to the used, he did not so much solve the ethical problem as turn it, heroically, into an existential...
Needless to say, all of this raises two rather interesting questions. In the first place, why would Yale be willing to suffer so much, in an immediate and financial sense, for the good of its football rivals? It must be because Yale knows universities as a whole have to stick together to fight the emerging unionization movements at schools up and down the coast and across the country...