| February 12, 2005 | - The pope endorsed suffering.
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AP
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| February 16, 2004 | - Another document revealed that Bush suffered from a hemorrhoid when he applied to the National Guard.
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New York Times
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| February 6, 2004 | - A new study found that men cause more pain than women.
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New Scientist
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| December 17, 2003 | - A nurse in New Jersey admitted to killing up to 40 patients "to alleviate pain and suffering."
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New York Times
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| November 28, 2003 | - Prime Minister Tony Blair had a stomach ache.
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New York Times
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| October 27, 2003 | - and western Africa was suffering a plague of dusty locusts.
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News 24 South Africa
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| October 10, 2003 | - Australian researchers found that the brain really does experience pain when your heart is breaking.
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Discovery Channel
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| April 30, 2003 | - Scientists discovered that fish can feel pain.
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| November 27, 2001 | - Yaakov Levy, an Israeli delegate, told the committee that a “close reading” of the 1987 Convention Against Torture, which Israel signed, “clearly suggests that pain and suffering, in themselves, do not necessarily constitute torture.” An Israeli death squad killed a Hamas leader in the West Bank who was suspected of planning suicide attacks.
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| November 13, 2001 | - The first clinical trial of marijuana released preliminary findings suggesting that pot is a “wonder drug” for people suffering from osteoporosis, cancer, AIDS, arthritis, spinal injuries, and some forms of mental illness.
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| November 6, 2001 | - Northern Alliance soldiers, initially pleased by the spectacular explosions produced by American B-52s, soon began to complain that the big stratofortresses were not very accurate: “The American bombs were the biggest I have seen in my life,” one fighter said. “But they missed the Taliban.” United States forces were suffering from an “intelligence vacuum,” officials said.
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| September 11, 2001 | -
British
scientists found that a marijuana spray applied under the tongue helped people with chronic pain.
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| June 5, 2001 | - An Indian man, diagnosed with a hernia after suffering unexplained pains for years, turned out to have a fully developed female reproductive system: fallopian tubes, ovaries, and a uterus.
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| May 29, 2001 | -
McDonald's apologized to Hindus whom it lured into sin (condemning them, perhaps, to countless lifetimes of suffering) by secretly putting beef flavorings on its french fries: “We regret if customers felt that the information we provided was not complete enough to meet their needs.” After a five-year investigation, Heinz was fined $180,000 for underfilling its ketchup bottles and agreed to overfill them by 1 percent, at a cost of $650,000, for a year.
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| May 29, 2001 | - Refugees in Afghanistan were suffering from scurvy.
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| May 15, 2001 | - Three Japanese ships embarked on a two-month whale hunt, supposedly meant to determine whether Brydes, minke, and sperm whales are suffering from pollution.
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| May 15, 2001 | -
California was suffering from rolling blackouts.
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| March 6, 2001 | - Former president Bill Clinton was said to be feeling sad and lonely in his big empty house in Chappaqua, New York.
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| February 13, 2001 | - A Dutch man was hospitalized in the Hague after he jumped, three times, from a bridge in three successive suicide attempts; police found him back up on the bridge, suffering from hypothermia, staring down at the icy depths.
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| February 6, 2001 | -
United Nations secretary general Kofi Annan presented an 87-point plan to end the suffering of the developing world.
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| January 30, 2001 | -
Congo's president Laurent Kabila was buried; he was killed by his bodyguards, all of whom were recruited by Kabila as children when he was a rebel commander. They said they did it “because of suffering.” Johnny and Luther Htoo, a pair of twin boys who until last week were the leaders of the Burmese rebel group God's Army, admitted that they did not have magic powers or an invisible army under their command; Luther told a reporter that he just wanted “to live as a family” with his parents.
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| November 7, 2000 | - People in Galway, Ireland, dug up the carcass of a mad cow and placed it in the owner's farmyard; burying a cow suffering from bovine spongiform encephalapathy could contaminate ground water with the prions that apparently cause the disease.
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| November 7, 2000 | - Fat people were still suffering discrimination.
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| September 26, 2000 | -
Israel was suffering an epidemic of West Nile disease.
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| September 26, 2000 | - The Vatican announced that on October 1, the anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China by Mao Tse-tung, the Pope will canonize 120 Chinese Catholics whom it considers martyrs; the Chinese foreign ministry said that this would “seriously hurt the feelings of the Chinese people.” Several Chinese Protestant leaders insisted that China's Christians faced little persecution.
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| August 1, 2000 | -
Scientists discovered that extreme pain suffered by infants, who once routinely underwent surgery without anesthesia, may have long-term neurological effects.
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