Word: suffering
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Tell most people that their health will suffer if they don't get their blood pressure down, and they respond with a shrug. But tell them their sex life will suffer? That gets their attention. In some men, blood-pressure drugs may lead to difficulty achieving erection and ejaculation, but few hypertensive women complain about sexual problems. According to a study by Bassett Healthcare in Cooperstown, N.Y., however, women with hypertension had a harder time achieving adequate vaginal lubrication and orgasm than women with normal blood pressure. Curiously, this was the case regardless of whether the hypertensive women took medication...
...which can help students address personal challenges and difficulties. Mental Health Service, the Bureau of Study Counsel, In Common, Room 13 and Response, in addition to friends and family, can provide great help for those who seek them out. But they can do very little to help those who suffer in isolation. Students should not be discouraged, whether openly or subtly, from seeking help. No one should be made to feel like a failure for seeking out assistance...
...their first child. While doctors attribute the babies' survival to the fact that the mother was able to carry them into the 30th week of pregnancy, the babies, ranging in weight from 2 pounds, 5 ounces to 3 pounds, 4 ounces, are in serious condition and will likely suffer health problems throughout their lives. And, for the insurance companies, there's the bill to consider: Caring for the seven infants is estimated to cost at least $1.2 million. Not to mention the costs of sending seven kids to Iowa State at the same time...
According to the UFW, grape-growing continues to cause health risks for both farmworkers and consumers. Thirty percent of farmworkers are under age 16, the UFW says; 27,000 farmworkers yearly suffer acute illnesses from pesticides, despite laws aiming to curtail their use; and farmworkers face generally unhospitable working conditions, often lacking bathrooms and drinking water. Meanwhile, the UFW claims, consumers are also at risk. According to a 1992 study by the General Accounting Office, cited by the UFW, grapes are sprayed with 75 different kinds of pesticides--one-third of which are known to be carcinogenic--and between...
Meanwhile Eisner's team says that if juries are not predisposed to dislike Katzenberg, it is only because they don't know him well enough. The Disney side threatened to make the introductions. A Disney source suggested that Katzenberg would suffer when the company highlights his poor record in live-action movies--a $56 million loss on Billy Bathgate, for instance. The company has also suggested that Katzenberg grabbed too much credit for animation successes...