Like Ireland and Greece before it, Cyprus is suffering from circumstances beyond its control — the economic problems of its neighbor Greece, and the wider European debt crisis — but it also played a significant role in its own downfall.
People who are optimistic when suffering a troubling circumstance tend to be happier and healthier than those who are cynical about their lives.
"Instead of standing back and watching Ronnie Biggs die a bleak death in jail, the justice secretary could take this opportunity to show compassion and also to review the care and management of other old prisoners suffering in similar circumstances".
In any population, there would be a spectrum of traits from stay-at-homes to explorers, with those at either end of the spectrum prospering in some circumstances and suffering in others.
"This report highlights the need to provide help for the most vulnerable, with evidence that many eastern European workers may be in precarious employment circumstances and suffering exploitation in some industries," said Andrea Murray, acting group director of strategy at the EHRC.
Unskillful behavior is harmful, hurtful and creates unhealthy circumstances and suffering.
Which is to say, everything: the genetic manipulation of the breeding stock to produce maximum feed-to-meat conversion, regardless of the suffering it causes; the appalling circumstances in which these creatures are then raised, crammed together, the stench of their own shit in their nostrils; the barbarity of the slaughter process, which can result in cattle literally being flayed alive.
We should always be ready to do the best we can, at any time, in any circumstances, to alleviate suffering.
But what many of the black participants in the forums speak of is their experience with the indifference of white people to their circumstances, stories, and suffering.
Clinton will release documents that reveal the type of pneumonia she is suffering from and the medical circumstances around her falling ill Sunday, campaign spokesman Brian Fallon said on MSNBC on Monday.
