Word: sufferings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...being deprived of old auditory pleasures. "There will be times when you just want to listen to music as a one-sense operation," he says, "and there will be other times when you want to sit down and get your hands dirty and play with it." Nor does Gabriel suffer from the traditional artist's skepticism, even fear, of technology's power tools. "I'm a great believer that technology has to go through two waves," he declares. "The first wave can dehumanize, but the second wave, if the response and feedback mechanisms are in place, can be to superhumanize...
...revolution begin to trickle in, people have started to wonder what those benefits will cost. A TIME/CNN poll found respondents profoundly ambivalent about genetic research and deeply divided over its applications. Asked whether they would take a genetic test that could tell them what diseases they were likely to suffer later in life, nearly as many people said they would prefer to remain ignorant (49%) as said they would like to know (50%). Most people strongly oppose human genetic engineering for any purpose except to cure disease or grow more food. A substantial majority (58%) think altering human genes...
CAPTION: If it were possible, would you want to take a genetic test telling you which diseases you are likely to suffer from later in life...
...Suzanne Somerses and the daughters of recent two-term Republican Presidents -- the rewards of painful self-reflection are more quantifiable: invitations to appear on Sally Jessy, book contracts, speaking engagements, invitations to appear on Oprah and so on. For celebrities, personal growth comes with a sense of obligation to suffer all the little inner children to come unto them, particularly if there is a fee involved...
...study, researchers from Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School compared the drinking habits of 340 men and women who had suffered recent heart attacks with those of healthy people of the same age and sex. The scientists found that people who sip one to three drinks a day are about half as likely to suffer heart attacks as nondrinkers are. The apparent source of the protection: those who drank alcohol had higher blood levels of high-density lipoproteins, or HDLs, the so-called good cholesterol, which is known to ward off heart disease...