Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Though individuals still account for the great bulk of giving (private donors gave 80% of the $144 billion raised by charities in 1995), some are worried that charities that aren't sexy enough to attract business support will suffer. Where would that leave relatively unpopular causes such as mental illness? "Ninety percent of the charity universe doesn't benefit from the hundreds of millions of dollars generated through cause marketing," notes Robert Bothwell, president of the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy...
...held up under scrutiny. Indeed, most scientists think addiction probably involves an intricate dance between environmental influences and multiple genes, some of which may influence dopamine activity only indirectly. This has not stopped some researchers from promoting the provocative theory that many people who become alcoholics and drug addicts suffer from an inherited condition dubbed the reward-deficiency syndrome. Low dopamine levels caused by a particular version of the D2 gene, they say, may link a breathtaking array of aberrant behaviors. Among them: severe alcoholism, pathological gambling, binge eating and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder...
Rock fans in their chair days can recall a distant dawn when pop music was about having a good time--fun fun fun for sweet little 16 at the hop. But that was before guys who knew three guitar chords were dubbed artists and, as such, had to suffer out loud for their muse. Consumers of pop have become so used to dirges about life's rottenness, sung by grungesters crushed under the weight of money, fame, drugs and women, that any happy music seems like ad jingles. Even female singers, traditionally dainty types, got the message. Doesn't Alanis...
Nobody will be forever happy in paradise or suffer forever in hell. Thus, we followers of Buddha do not aim for any form of paradise but seek Nirvana--emptiness, nonexistence. Of the three ways to acquire knowledge--studying, contemplating and practicing--Nirvana can only be known through practice. KYAW KYAW Kelantan, Malaysia...
...novel murder defense: that the victim was killed not by his client but by the harvesting of her organs. This was followed by an interview with an ethicist concerned that protocols proposed at the Cleveland Clinic would allow organ-preserving drugs to be given to patients expected to suffer cardiac death after life support is withdrawn. The ethicist feared that these drugs could actually hasten death...