Word: dangers
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...TUNED TO DANGER...
...more fundamental, says Dr. Bruce Perry of Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, is the role parents play in setting up the neural circuitry that helps children regulate their responses to stress. Children who are physically abused early in life, he observes, develop brains that are exquisitely tuned to danger. At the slightest threat, their hearts race, their stress hormones surge and their brains anxiously track the nonverbal cues that might signal the next attack. Because the brain develops in sequence, with more primitive structures stabilizing their connections first, early abuse is particularly damaging. Says Perry: "Experience is the chief...
...push more children into this system through welfare reform," says Ellen Galinsky, co-president of the Families and Work Institute, "and you are saying to these families, 'Just get any child care you can find and can pay for,' there's a real danger...
...phenomenon is not limited to small-town America; we are feeling similar effects of "progress" here in Cambridge. Local "Mom-and-Pop" stores are in precarious situations at best. Last year we watched Elsie's shut its doors. The Grolier Book Store was in grave danger of closing...
...been suggested that the town stops for two Mondays consecutively in February and the four teams here become the focus of this city's attention. This year we were definitely in danger of being overrun by a flood of Super Bowl victory parties, but seeing that those have been canceled everyone will be looking our way again...