Word: sufferings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...details were antiseptic yet chilling. Perhaps the most appalling nicety was bandaging the faces of the dead, so that researchers would not have to look into their eyes after the bodies were put through the automobile test crashes. How much indignity should human remains be allowed to suffer -- even for the cause of science? That ancient debate was renewed last week by the disclosure that Germany's University of Heidelberg had, for the past two decades, wired electronic sensors to more than 200 human corpses (including the bodies of eight children), strapped them into cars and hurled them at speeds...
...Nairobi in the early 1980s, the sexually transmitted virus has infected 90% of the city's lower-class prostitutes; but somehow Munyiva, 42, has avoided the scourge during her 13 years in that grim line of work. "Perhaps God knows that if he takes me away, my children would suffer," she says...
...traffic swells, the Internet is beginning to suffer the problems of any heavily traveled highway, including vandalism, break-ins and traffic jams. "It's like an amusement park that's so successful that there are long waits for the most popular rides," says David Farber, a professor of information science at the University of Pennsylvania and one of the network's original architects. And while most users wait patiently for the access and information they need, rogue hackers use stolen passwords to roam the network, exploring forbidden computers and reading other people's mail...
...Baum and Donald Burnes, who claim the very word "homelessness" is a misnomer coined by activists to persuade the public that street people are just regular folks with a housing problem. In A Nation in Denial: The Truth About Homelessness, Baum and Burnes claim 85% of all homeless people suffer from alcoholism, drug abuse or mental illness. The authors' stated aim is to force society "to stop making distinctions between the deserving and the undeserving poor" and address the underlying problems head on. More often, their book has served to deepen the homeless stigma...
...Middle-aged men with high levels of anxiety appear to have twice the risk of developing high blood pressure as do their less tense peers, according to a 20-year study of 497 men and 626 women. Puzzlingly, highly anxious middle-aged or older women did not suffer an increased risk of hypertension...