Word: sufferings
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...alarming two-fifths from 1982 to 1992, and air pollution, airtight homes and windowless offices may aggravate the condition, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in a report released today. During the ten-year period, the rate of asthma rose by 42 percent (from 34.7 to 49.4 sufferers per thousand people), while the death rate for asthmatics rose by 40 percent (3,154 deaths to 5,106) over roughly the same period. About 13 million Americans (one out of twenty people) suffer from asthma, an inflammation of the airways that results in wheezing and shortness of breath...
...research in Thursday's New England Journal of Medicine suggests that some blind people have a way of sensing light, even though they cannot see it. The discovery may yield clues on how the brain keeps time. Many blind people suffer from insomnia; unable to sense light, their bodies fall behind real time by about a half hour each day. Yet a third of the 1 million Americans who are completely blind do not experience the problem. Dr. Charles Czeisler, a member of the team that conducted the research at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, speculates that removing...
...case. Other Tyson pilots dismiss the drug-running charge against Henrickson as preposterous. Henrickson believes the threat was intended to scare him away from talking about the alleged deliveries to Clinton. He claims he's being blacklisted in the industry, a fate he says his former colleagues might suffer if they backed him up. "It's easy to control people who don't know where their next house payment is coming from," he says...
According to Mintz, most homeless people are not a threat to the public. "I think people confuse different social problems," she says. "Mental illness, alcoholism and other diseases homeless people suffer from aren't diseases that make them violent or lead them to crime...
...alliance is much more potent than an imagined contract based on silence. I can hardly conceive the horror that would eventually erupt if we were to remain silent and complacent on the very issues that people are contending with beyond the borders of Harvard. Indeed we suffer the longterm consequences when we ignore the very issues that our "brothers" deal with outside the mainstream...