Word: americanizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...psychological equivalent of an organ donor card, donating their traumas to science so that psychologists, counselors and other head-shrinkers might use the U.S.?s biggest domestic tragedy in ages to someone?sadvantage. Almost four years later, the results are in, published Wednesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association - and as one might imagine, not many got out unscarred. Out of the 182 studied, 45 percent suffered illnesses that needed psychiatric care, including chronic depression and drug and alcohol problems. One out of every three had post-traumatic stress syndrome, replete with the sense-triggered flashbacks, angry outbursts...
...killed ?- and those who refused to think about the incident. And that may be what science gets out of the Oklahoma City tragedy: an idea of whom to help first. For grief researchers, the beaches of Normandy were a laboratory; so were the jungles of Vietnam. The only American war is at home now, and sporadic. Oklahoma City is a horrible way to learn, but for tragedy there are no in-house experiments, just outside opportunities. When something similarly horrendous happens - and of course it will, someday - the carnage caused by Tim McVeigh will have had the opportunity...
...While many Cleveland parents have viewed the program as a pragmatic response to a troubled public school system, they?ve now found themselves in the middle of a controversy that cuts to the core of the principles of American public education. "Public schools have long held the promise of being America's great equalizer, mixing students of different races, classes and religions in a single student body and passing on the nation's shared civic heritage," says TIME correspondent Adam Cohen. "Cleveland's voucher program threatens to replace that with a system that teaches one faith in one school...
...know those airline meal carts ? the ones that bump your knees and block the way to the toilet. Well, the ones on American Airlines flights from Colombia have been carrying a lot more than just bland airline food. Drug Enforcement Administration agents arrested more than 50 employees of the airline and its subcontractors in Miami Wednesday, after exposing a scheme in which drugs were concealed in the carts loaded in Colombia and then removed on arrival in the U.S. An undercover sting operation had also enticed the suspects into smuggling weapons and explosives aboard planes. Agents began investigating the smuggling...
...American has cooperated with the investigation, which involved some of its ground staff but no air crews, but it may still suffer negative publicity. Only three days ago, Colombian authorities announced that they?d smashed a drug ring which had infiltrated a company involved in the maintenance of American Airlines planes. In that case, the smugglers had transported heroin in secret compartments accessible only to technical staff. To compound its p.r. problems, American is the target of a government antitrust suit that started last May, and one of its planes crashed in June while landing during a storm in Little...