Word: sufference
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...suffer from wanderlust is to be in the thrall of travel, to have an itch to get out and see the world. “I travel not to go anywhere, but to go,” wrote a brooding Robert Louis Stevenson in “Cheylard and Luc.” “I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move...
...post-Title IX era, female sports are more competitive than they have ever been. And with higher stakes have come more hazardous consequences. Boys who play football are still more likely to suffer concussions than any other athletes, but in some sports played by both sexes, girls actually run a higher risk of getting hurt. According to a new study in the Journal of Athletic Training, U.S. female high school soccer athletes suffered almost 40% more concussions than males did (overall, the study estimates that female players suffer some 29,000 concussions annually, compared with 21,000 for boys...
...also extremely vague. It defines harassment as engaging in a “pattern of conduct” that would cause a reasonable person to suffer “substantial emotional distress.” But what period of time results in the distinction of a “pattern” rather than haphazard nastiness? And what does “substantial” entail for the “average” person? Suicide? A few tears...
...bulls-eye in the center. As I took off my shoes, stripped off my jacket, and emptied my pockets, I rehearsed my explanation for the book, just in case I was selected for secondary screening—a reminder that, six years after Sept. 11, 2001, we still suffer from a heightened sense of vulnerability. One year after its initial publication, Radcliffe Instiute executive dean Lousie Richarson’s perspective on terrorism and nuanced advocacy of counter-terrorism efforts remains relevant.Richardson crafts a thorough history of terrorism that provides an even-handed portrait of modern terror?...
...Huckabee is likely to suffer for refusing to demagogue immigration. He is already in trouble for offering college scholarships to deserving children of illegal immigrants in Arkansas. "We never should grind our heel in the face of a child," he has said. But if a nativist revolt is brewing, his fellow Republicans are handing out the pitchforks. Peripheral candidates like Tom Tancredo and Duncan Hunter set the slime flowing in the presidential campaign. The theme was soon picked up by Mitt Romney, who seems incapable of finding an issue where integrity trumps expediency. Romney has made illegal immigration the target...