Word: aftershocks
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...year-old social psychologist has turned her history into a practical and accessible guidebook, AfterShock, for people who are going through the same things she did - confusion, fear, and emotional seesaws - every time a doctor gave her devastating news about her health. Founder and director of the Center for the Advancement of Health, a non-partisan institute that helps patients get reliable information about their medical care, Gruman talks to TIME about her experiences and provides advice about how to weather medical storms...
...battle for control of Lebanon that began in earnest with Friday's rally by hundreds of thousands of protesters in downtown Beirut is an aftershock of that war. Again and again, the packed crowd, the speakers on the podium in Riadh Al Solh Square, and the martial anthems played on a gigantic stereo system sounded the same theme, accusing the government of Prime Minister Fouad Siniora of collaborating with Israel and the United States in their plans to redraw the map of the Middle East and bomb Hizballah into submission. Put simply by a Shi'ite schoolgirl from Baalbek: "This...
...happen the next time the earth shakes. Last week, refugee camps in the hills of Pangandaran were still packed with survivors too scared to return home while soldiers dug for corpses along the beach. "I'm very happy to be alive," Irawan says. "But every time I feel an aftershock, I feel like that may change." In catastrophe-plagued Indonesia, you never know when the next warning?if there is one?may be the last...
...survived, another is still missing) that unpreparedness was all too evident. Nothing remained of her friend's house, and the beach was now littered with debris as far as the eye could see. "I am very happy to be alive," she says. "But every time I feel an aftershock I feel like that might change." As the country limps from one natural disaster to the next, millions of Indonesians will remain on edge...
...with a lame "appeasement" like the one that led France to humiliating defeat in 1940. Failing to rein in public spending for fear of displeasing those who use and abuse it would amount to precisely that today. In Strange Defeat, a superb essay written in the aftershock of France's capitulation in 1940, the historian Marc Bloch wrote: "Let us have the courage to admit what has just been vanquished in ourselves: it is our cherished small-town ways. The languid passage of the days, the slowness of the buses, the sleepy authorities, the shortsighted political bickering, the unambitious artisans...