Yet for all the economic pain, the social and political fallout from deglobalisation has not yet been severe.

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The first lesson is all about the pain and indignation that an individual can suffer from personal attacks, including executives who have much less potentially compromising baggage than Hurd brought along from HP.

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The Malaysian leader may also be echoing a cry of fear and pain from all Asia, whose world-beating growth looks set to slow in the face of increasing financial woes and global competition -- both triggered in large part by liberalization.

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Although many studies have found brain areas that light up when pain is present, the new work is the first to develop a combined signature from all these signals that can be used to measure pain.

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It's a pain Jolie knows all too well from losing her mother to the disease.

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What all the scanning research is showing is that people get immediate pleasure and pain from obtaining and losing money.

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Car makers began to take fuel cells seriously after California decreed that, by 2004, a tenth of all cars they sold in the state must not produce emissions, on pain of being barred from the market.

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The story of how Dr. John Sarno, a ground-breaking medical pioneer whose revolutionary approach to treating pain succeeded in helping thousands, overcoming formidable opposition from the medical establishment is both inspirational and all-too-familiar.

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The service is all that care from the surgeon, the team of nurses, the time in a hospital bed, heck, the pain itself (you do have to cut open the rib cage to do heart surgery).

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