Word: calmed
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...course, the heist isn’t going to happen if Keith Frazier (Denzel Washington), the detective-cum-hostage negotiator on the case, has anything to say about it. Frazier is dealing with a psychotically-calm bank robber, but his personal life is a mess. He is embroiled in a fraud scandal at work and has a girlfriend who is pushing for marriage. So we have the cop-with-something-to-prove and the mysterious British villain (actually, Clive Owen might be playing American—his accent is a bit hard to pin down); toss in a shady power...
...Afghanistan and Iraq? As Klein said, democracy "demands that people take charge of their lives and make informed decisions." I hope Americans make informed decisions in the next elections and hold our public officials accountable for what they say. We need to repair our image as a superpower and calm the global hornet's nest this Administration and congressional leadership have stirred up. Richard Zack New Providence, New Jersey, U.S. Give Women a Hand "Why Merkel is not enough" [jan. 30] reported on the difficulties that German women face when they try to combine career and family. We want...
Shelley Thomas, 53, was wheeled into an anteroom at London's Middlesex Hospital in preparation for pelvic surgery. A patient going into that operation is usually given a mix of painkilling narcotics and nerve-quelling tranquilizers. But not Thomas. Instead she rested on a gurney, alert and calm, taking deep breaths at her hypnotherapist's instruction. Thomas counted aloud, "One hundred, deep sleep; 99, deeper sleep...
...which sedation is inappropriate or for patients who are allergic to anesthetics. Dr. David Spiegel, associate chair of the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford University, hypnotizes Parkinson's sufferers during the implantation of deep-brain electrodes--a process that requires tremulous patients to remain conscious and calm. He has also coaxed children into imagining that a balloon tied to their wrist will fly them to their favorite places, a hypnotic technique that has lessened anxiety in pediatric patients undergoing bladder catheterizations. In Iowa, Schulz-Stübner hypnotizes patients to reduce pain and anxiety while they receive presurgery...
...many in the Solomons, life has improved dramatically since mid-2003, when an Australian-led rescue effort - the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands (RAMSI) - arrived to calm long-running ethnic tensions and prevent the country from falling into anarchy. Dozens of violent militants are in jail or on trial, thousands of weapons have been confiscated, and corruption investigations are cranking up. Australia will spend $A247 million this year on its participation in RAMSI; other South Pacific nations are also giving security help. The shattered economy is gaining momentum, and an election is scheduled for April...