Word: sufferings
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More than anything else, it is the image of a deeply resentful human being, as reflected in his writings and speeches, that inspires critics to compare Zhirinovsky to tyrants like Hitler, whose self-pitying laments Zhirinovsky echoes when he writes: "Life itself forced me to suffer from the very day, the moment, the instant of my birth. Society could give me nothing." Having portrayed his life, and especially his childhood, as plagued by deprivation and rejection, Zhirinovsky has learned to project these sentiments from the personal to the national scale, elevating them to a world view that has resonated...
...analyze all at once. So scientists use special enzymes to chop the chromosomes into small manageable pieces and pick out small identifiable stretches -- called markers -- on each segment. When researchers are searching for a disease gene, they look for a marker that is common to all people who suffer from that ailment. If one is found, then the defective gene is probably located somewhere near that marker. The problem is that although the gene hunters know where the marker is located on the chromosome, they don't necessarily know how close it lies to the suspect gene...
...events in former Yugoslavia just how porous borders can be, were more inclined to see the parallels between Russia and Weimar Germany: vast economic dislocations, hyperinflation, national humiliation and a disaffected officer class. Of course, there are notable differences too. For all its economic troubles, Russia does not suffer the massive unemployment that plagued Germany just after World War I. And rather than being slapped with steep reparations, Russia is receiving aid from abroad...
...Twins are 10 times as likely to suffer from cerebral palsy as siblings from single births, says a California health survey...
...torture. But words on paper do not make a law-governed state. Russians remember grandiloquent provisions on human rights contained in constitutions written for Stalin in 1936 and Leonid Brezhnev in 1977 -- rights they never enjoyed. Without stable government institutions in place to enforce the constitution, this document might suffer the same fate...