To the clatter, pedestrian obstacle course and store closings created by the Second Avenue subway project, add one more affliction for more than 100 families living on the East Side: no gas.
Now, back to the usual problems at the Metropolitan Opera as more mundane afflictions took over on Thursday night.
The sight of yellowish-green fluid seeping out of the ear is alarming, and in many cases, it is a symptom of one of the more common afflictions of childhood otitis media, more commonly known as a middle ear infection.
People who are not poor often casually ascribe their aches, pains and even more serious afflictions to "stress," but stress, if it is a killer, is a far more serious problem for people like Beverly.
On my arrival at the very grand regency hotel, I fell over from vertigo on entering the lobby (I get upwards vertigo as well as downwards - one of my more unfortunate afflictions) and then made it downstairs to registration.
Not for nothing did Paul Theroux set his novel of madness in the jungle, "The Mosquito Coast", here.But now the Honduran authorities want to get tough with at least one of the coast's more seedy afflictions, the trafficking and sexual exploitation of central American children.
Rareshare says that it has been collaborating with the National Institutes of Health and the Canadian Organization for Rare Disorders, which are helping it gain traction in an incredibly crowded space (most other medical sites are focused on more common afflictions).
If I tell you the more gruesome afflictions my daughter reported, I'm afraid you'll move to a different post instead of this one to distract you from whatever it is you ought to be doing right now.
A toxic liquid that single-handedly keeps Berocca afloat via the hangovers of millions of people, and can also lead to much more serious afflictions than a sore head and an intolerance of loud noises, such as liver cirrhosis, cancer and heart disease.
Being a woman seemed more an affliction than merely a trait shared by slightly more than 50% of the population.
