Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...same excuse which has been used to account for everything from punk rock to eating disorders, and here Strong puts it to use again. But Strong differentiates between the piercing and tattooing culture which is becoming more prevalent and the kind of pathological body mutilation that her subjects suffer from. She says that the former is becoming more popular but stops short of saying that it is popularizing the latter...
...Evening with Champions" is not your ordinary figure-skating show. Organized by Eliot House students, it's a benefit whose proceeds go to The Jimmy Fund, to help children suffering from cancer. Although adults suffer from various kinds of cancer far more than children do, the fund specifically asks us to direct our help toward children. Why? Children suffering from cancer are not any less deserving of their pain than affected adults are. But children facing potentially terminal illnesses move our hearts all the more because they have not yet even had a chance to decide what they want...
...staff shows its own pettiness by questioning the president's motives in this situation. This agreement was never a foregone conclusion, and the president stood to suffer a major embarrassment if the talks failed, as they almost did on several occassions. President Clinton was under no obligation to enter these negotiations, and will derive little domestic political gain from their success...
Krentz is not alone. Scientists estimate that 10 million Americans suffer from seasonal depression and 25 million more develop milder versions. But there's never been definitive proof that treatment with very bright lights (10,000 lux, or 20 times as bright as your office lights) makes a difference. After all, it's hard to do a double-blind test when the subjects can see for themselves whether or not the light is on. That's why nobody has ever separated the real effects of light therapy from placebo effects...
...winter depressives from trying to heal themselves. Light boxes for that purpose are available for $300 to $600 without a doctor's prescription. That bothers Michael Terman, a research psychologist at Columbia University. He is worried that the boxes may be tried by patients who are suicidal or suffer from mental illness that can't be treated with light. Terman has developed a questionnaire, available at www.cet.org/cet2000 to help determine whether you should seek expert care...