Word: sufferings
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...vaccination may have risks of its own. The problem lies with the nature of the chicken-pox virus. After you get it, you always have it in your body. Normally you only suffer from chicken pox once, but the virus can flare up again later in life, producing shingles, a painful skin rash. The vaccine is a weakened form of the virus, and it too may be harbored in the body forever. The debilitated virus could conceivably spring to life years after the vaccination, and no one knows what damage might occur. Another danger is that the vaccine...
...Rasheed Hotel so that visitors cannot help stepping on the former President's face. BUSH IS CRIMINAL, it says in English and Arabic. Although they show no hostility toward visiting Americans, Iraqis are angry that they -- not the government foisted upon them -- are the ones who always suffer. At the Lawyers' Union in Baghdad's fashionable Mansour district, a white-haired attorney captures Iraqis' twin resentments in his . rage: "Did Bill Clinton have to murder Layla Attar to prove how powerful he is?" he demands. "Did that strike oust Saddam? No. So what's the point...
After decades of lurking in the shadows, intelligence services will have to work hard to adapt to using open sources of information, the flood of raw information available to everyone from television, newspapers, journals, computers. Intelligence officers suffer from the impression that information is no good unless they stole it or paid for it. "The principal problem is with analysis," says Morton Abramowitz, a former chief of intelligence and research at the State Department, now president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington. "A major question is whether we're making use of the vast amount of nonsecret...
Only a decade ago, for example, the West was seized with a near mass hysteria about imminent nuclear apocalypse. The airwaves, the bookstores, the Congress were filled with dire warnings about our headlong dash to the abyss. Indeed, those who refused to lose their heads were said to suffer from a psychological disorder. "Psychic numbing," it was called...
About 12 million American children suffer from chronic hunger. The problem is worst in some Southern states, where more than a fourth of all children regularly go hungry; the rate is more than 18% in New York, South Dakota and California...