Word: childhoods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...alibi; it probably first emerged, he says, when Bianchi was nine years old. Other medical experts are now examining Bianchi to determine whether his disorder is organic, caused by a brain tumor. But Watkins and an associate believe that the dual personality stems from Bianchi's unhappy childhood...
...adopted in infancy by Nicholas and Frances Bianchi of Rochester, N.Y. Nicholas, who was a welder, died when Kenneth was 14. Throughout his childhood, Kenneth often suffered from amnesia, which Watkins says is a symptom of dissociative reaction, the medical term for dual personality. Bianchi had frequent nightmares of being in a dark room with a strange presence, perhaps an awareness of the second personality, and severe migraine headaches. Says Watkins: "Headaches often occur when the personality underneath is trying to get out and the one on top is trying to maintain control. The battle is experienced as a severe...
Instead, one sees thousands of children marching to and from school singing songs about the great and fatherly Kim Il Sung. In one nursery school that I visited, the youngsters first bowed, to his childhood portrait, then had to recite the tale of an incident from his life...
Wacker said the disease is highly contagious for people who have not been immunized or had the German measles in childhood...
...immunity of the population is an important consideration. My assumption is that Harvard's immunity is quite high," Wacker said, adding, "Most here have had German measles in childhood...