Some have challenged the Misery Index by noting that it reflects entrepreneurial considerations only to the point where quality of civic life begins, overlooking the "benefits" that some countries pay their citizens in the form of reimbursed medical care, child care, unemployment, retirement, etc.
Further, this blood flow ratio on brain perfusion SPECT, which can be obtained using a single brain blood flow imaging study without acetazolamide challenge, detects misery perfusion in the affected cerebral hemisphere in such patients.
He told students at the University of Cape Town that it may seem futile to challenge the world's "misery and ignorance, injustice and violence".
The knife edge is how to challenge attitudes that produce misery without provoking a backlash, from the society and especially from its conservative Islamist elements.
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In the first decades of the twentieth century, modernists like Joyce and Eliot had fractured and elaborated literary form, but the human misery of the thirties challenged American writers to return their attention to content.
When the challenges become evident, misery is the result.
Re "Operation for Obesity Leaves Some in Misery" (May 4): I see daily the misery caused by severe obesity, a condition that now challenges smoking as the leading cause of preventable death in the United States.
"No society can be content where misery and want exist, unless through our love collectively we also challenge the greed and selfishness behind it," he said.
What gangling, hormonally challenged 14- or 15-year-old boy hasn't imagined transcending the miseries of adolescence by becoming an action-adventure superhero?
