It makes me feel so bad, all the suffering in Haiti, she sighs.

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For example, Medicare, the federal health-insurance scheme for the elderly, makes no allowance for palliative care, which eases suffering rather than attempting to cure the sufferer.

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And when he makes judgments he obviously takes into account that kind of suffering.

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Suffering can be defined as the pain that makes life seem meaningless.

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One of their sons, played by Seth Clayton, makes a lovely late appearance as a very tall teen suffering from a bizarre condition.

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For an eater suffering from a guilty conscience, a spoonful of vitamins makes the fattening food go down.

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His own story -- an immigrants' son, adopted and then disowned by one of the richest families in Perugia, suffering from fugue states and sleep-walking -- makes him one of the more interesting characters in the case.

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This claim makes increasingly little sense to the three-quarters of Algerians who are under 30, many of them suffering from decades of economic misrule.

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That provoked howls from long-suffering locals, who say that noise pollution from Heathrow hurts house prices, causes stress and makes it impossible for their children to concentrate at school.

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Home values are plummeting and people are running out of options as to what makes the most sense in moving forward with their mortgages, and mortgage holders and servicing companies are now suffering.

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