Word: suffering
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According to the China Sports Daily, nearly 80% of China's 300,000 retired athletes are struggling with joblessness, injury or poverty. Many athletes suffer from sports injuries and health problems caused by their training. Zou came out of the system with her own appalling legacy. She says the pills she was required to take made her grow a beard and develop a prominent Adam's apple and a deep voice. "My coach told me it was a nutrition booster. I trusted him," Zou says. The steroids also made her infertile. Now, she must shave every couple of days...
...make the region an economic powerhouse. There should be a commitment by all stakeholders to redistribute oil wealth among Africa's people. The oil-rich states should stop channeling the proceeds from oil sales into the bank accounts of the ruling élite while the majority of their citizens suffer economic stagnation and social deterioration. That pattern fuels only political instability. Oluwole Akinbi, LAGOS
...make the region an economic powerhouse. There should be a commitment by all stakeholders to redistribute oil wealth among Africa's people. The oil-rich states should stop channeling the proceeds from oil sales into the bank accounts of the ruling élite while the majority of their citizens suffer economic stagnation and social deterioration. That pattern fuels only political instability. Oluwole Akinbi, lagos...
...some of the same states that have rejected gay marriage are endorsing gay adoption. After winning constitutional amendments in 11 states to ban gay marriage in 2004, conservatives put gay adoption in their crosshairs last year--and misfired in every state they targeted. Since then, they have continued to suffer legislative defeats in states like Arkansas, which banned gay marriage in 2004 but earlier this year saw a bill to prohibit gay adoption die in committee. Only Florida denies gays and lesbians the right to adopt under any circumstances...
...experiment was abandoned - there was a lack of sufficient troops - after he left. McCain and others believe, with some justification, that if the Petraeus counterinsurgency tactics had been adopted three years ago, the U.S.-led coalition might have had a shot. But now it seems likely that Petraeus will suffer the same fate in Baghdad as he did in Mosul. The various clocks are very much on his mind, but so are the daily sacrifices, the brilliant improvisations and occasional neighborhood victories of the troops he leads. "He doesn't want to be the fall guy," an aide said...