Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Many of our constituents have taken these past failures as evidence of the uselessness and worthlessness of the council--an argument validated by elections canceled by God and the subsequent low voter turnout. While I am certainly not eager to assume that the council deserves to suffer under divine wrath, we must at least admit that we have not done well in listening to our constituents' concerns on important issues. Because we don't listen to students, they don't vote in our elections...
...just getting even for what Starr has done. Just as Republicans are getting even for Watergate and Bork and Clarence Thomas and Iran-contra. Just as Democrats one day will get even for this tear we are on. No doubt Flynt will snag some philanderers, and they will suffer shame if not loss of office, marriage and family. The drama on Capitol Hill looks more and more like a bad Italian opera, with singers in death throes everywhere. By the last act, the stars are still singing, but soon even they will be dead...
...technologies are helping scientists understand more about how children's brains suffer because of insufficient stimulation or stimuli of the wrong kind. Dr. Bruce Perry of Houston's Baylor College of Medicine found that kids who hardly play--or who aren't touched very much--develop brains 20% to 50% smaller than normal. Infants in the care of mothers with severe depression show reduced brain activity as well as prominent effects in the parts of the brain associated with the expression of feelings. "This may result from such mothers' inability to relate affectionately and responsively to their infants," writes...
Girls today are in trouble. They lose confidence in early adolescence. Their grades plummet, and, following sexual stereotypes, their interest in math and science flags. They are plagued by eating disorders, suffer depression, get pregnant, attempt suicide. And it all makes headlines, spawns research projects and prompts calls for single-sex education...
...advent of certain technologies makes me feel that I am out of touch with humanity. The button fly, for instance, especially on men's pants. Don't we already suffer enough? Congress ought to pass legislation requiring J. Crew to print bold-faced warnings on all button-fly-trouser-related copy. That way there would be no mistakes...