Word: painful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wasn't the sight of his bodily injury that shocked me. It was the fact that he was directing rescuers to another individual trapped in the mass of wood beneath him, thinking of the life of another student in the midst of excruciating pain...
...case to the U.S., it could refuse to give the FBI free rein to investigate in Egypt. As Administration diplomats worked overtime to calm tempers and encourage cooperation, NTSB officials retreated. By Friday, chairman James Hall was blaming unauthorized news leaks for "flat wrong" speculation that "caused pain" to victims' families and had "done a disservice" to a long-standing international friendship. But despite the diplomatic delicacy, Hall, the Justice Department and FBI officials remain determined to pursue, on their own if need be, the hypothesis that someone deliberately plunged the plane into the sea. "It is not a question...
...Geneva-based WTO is both traffic cop and top court of the global economy. And as shown by China's bid for admission last week, the organization seems about to extend its gospel of no-pain, no-gain capitalism across the planet. The WTO's 36,000 pages of regulations reach into far-flung crannies of human existence. Can Malaysian fishermen export their shrimp to the U.S. even if their nets lack escape hatches for endangered turtles? Yes. Can Massachusetts refuse to buy products from companies that do business in Myanmar? No. Do American corporations get an illegal export subsidy...
...result, there is still no objective evidence that angiogenesis therapy improves blood flow to the heart. Yet all other signs indicate that something good is happening. Patients experience much less chest pain, or angina, and can run much longer on a treadmill. Although encouraging, such quality-of-life reports are not enough to convince other doctors, not to mention the Food and Drug Administration, that the treatment is effective. Researchers are confident, however, that improvements in imaging technology will soon allow them to detect the presence of the new blood vessels that they believe are there...
Aspiring filmmakers, are you feeling overlooked, underappreciated, unaccountably undiscovered? Not to worry; Leo feels your pain. Last week LEONARDO DICAPRIO, whose movie-star status has helped him become wildly rich and fabulously hedonistic, announced he is giving back to the industry by inaugurating the First Annual Leonardo DiCaprio International Online Short Film Festival (official nickname: LeoFest). Moviemakers can submit works no longer than 15 minutes to be judged in four categories by a panel of experts; the best films will be loaded onto the Internet www.leofest.com beginning in December. "This festival strives to offer a level field on which anyone...