Word: suffering
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...transfusion medicine at the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. "If you're in an automobile accident, and you need 100 units, you're down to one in 5,000." Even when donor blood is deemed safe, if blood of the wrong group is transfused by mistake, recipients may suffer kidney failure, shock and clotting difficulties. Differences between donor and recipient platelets, white cells and plasma proteins can also cause reactions. Even donating one's own blood for use during surgery can be hazardous if the blood is mishandled...
Some 1.25 million Americans suffer burns every year. Most of them quickly recover, both physically and mentally, with permanent damage limited to a small scar or two. But more than 50,000 burn victims require hospitalization annually, and 5,000 die of their injuries...
Until then, let the poor suffer, the uneducated remain ignorant, the hungry starve and the forests wither. They say in political philosophy that justice delayed is justice denied. Gates, Buffett and their fellow super-rich should be ashamed of themselves. Generosity delayed is generosity denied...
...warned that repealing the cap could in the long run hurt some colleges that could now borrow more money than they could reasonably repay. But officials say that Harvard-which is already well over the $150 million limit and has a pristine credit rating and massive endowment-won't suffer this fate...
...colonial, you have to suffer under British arrogance," Crompton says. "Coming to the States was like meeting other colonials-the atmosphere was so much more relaxed, friendly and less formal...