Word: abarbanel
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...some blame women for getting raped. Topor recalls that "the middle-aged mother of one of my friends saw the movie and said to me, 'Obviously she deserved it.' " Says Gail Abarbanel of the Rape Treatment Center at Santa Monica Hospital in California: "I haven't seen a single rape case with multiple assailants in which anyone has tried to stop it. And research indicates that the more people around, the less anyone takes responsibility...
Rape crisis centers usually have counselors on call 24 hours a day. They stay with the victim during the medical exam and assist her with the police report. Reporting the rape is important both to put repeat offenders in jail and for therapy. "It's getting back," says Gail Abarbanel, director of the Santa Monica (Calif.) Rape Treatment Center. "To discourage women from reporting is a bad message that implies the victim had a role in the rape...
...hijackers, a swarthy man who had evidently had flying experience, opened the unlocked door to the flight deck, clubbed Copilot Maoz Poraz with the butt of his pistol, and slid into a seat behind Captain Oded Abarbanel, ordering a change of course to Algiers. Back in the cabin, his two accomplices brandished pistols and hand grenades in order to keep the frightened passengers in their seats...
...pregnenolone was discussed with great interest: its ability to help sterile males. Montreal's Dr. Hans Selye, a leading hormone expert, reported that it increases the sperm production of the testes. Dr. Selye worked mostly with experimental animals, but Dr. A. R. Abarbanel of Los Angeles experimented with human males. Of 40 sterile men that he treated with pregnenolone, Abarbanel claimed, 18 were enabled to impregnate their wives. Many of the men reported increased sexual desire-which may or may not have been imagination...
...this prose opus? Mrs. Crane knows quite well she can "do" nothing about it if Nathalia breaks out again in the next six years. She is perfectly aware that in the girl flows blood, not only from John and Priscilla Alden, but from "the grand old Spanish family, Abarbanel, who counted among their number poets, musicians and a minister of state to Ferdinand and Isabella." Author Stephen Crane (The Red Badge of Courage) was "a not distant relative." A grand-uncle edited the American Register (Paris) and knew Empress Eugénie. Genius, the Cranes must recognize, will...