Word: crisises
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Smith, a free-lance journalist and author, is the most eloquent voice in a country in the throes of an epidemic. South Africa recorded 1,263 rapes in 1979. Today the official annual figure is nearly 50,000, but rape-crisis researchers say only 1 in 35 is reported. That...
One of Smith's chief complaints about her case was the insensitivity of doctors and clinics. Now some hospitals and medical institutes are opening rape clinics and training staff in rape-crisis management, as well as drawing up protocols for the forensic examination and care of rape victims. Post-rape...
On Oct. 15, federal agents issued a warrant for the arrest of Terry Church, 46, the flamboyant, Harley-riding president of Keystone Mortgage Co., a subsidiary of First National Bank of Keystone. The agents excavated hundreds of cartons of mortgage documents buried in a corner of Church's mountaintop ranch...
Bob and Sue Harvey spent nine years as resident fellows in a dorm at Stanford and lived to tell about it in their book Virtual Reality and the College Freshman. "The freshman student often faces an identity crisis during the first semester," they write. "Kids know who they are in...
Like more and more American workers, Martin has come to depend on his employer to keep him healthy and, to some degree, sane. On days when he doesn't bicycle to work, the father of two jogs on a treadmill in the HP fitness center. He studies meditation and stress...