Word: disrupter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...team member Glenn Rosen, a Harvard neuroscientist, "we found that the size of the neurons is smaller in the left hemisphere than it is in the right hemisphere." The size differential is only 10% to 15%, but that may be enough to throw off the brain's timing and disrupt its crucial word-processing skills...
There is no question that ADHD can disrupt lives. Kids with the disorder frequently have few friends. Their parents may be ostracized by neighbors and relatives, who blame them for failing to control the child. "I've got criticism of my parenting skills from strangers," says the mother of a hyperactive boy in New Jersey. "When you're out in public, you're always on guard. Whenever I'd hear a child cry, I'd turn to see if it was because of Jeremy...
...Potter said, "the Divinity School will disrupt this neighborhood however they want until the law says, 'Sorry, you can do that...
Perhaps predictably, a group of bloody-minded white rightists had tried -- and failed -- to disrupt the process of change. They had launched a campaign of small bombings against railways, power lines and A.N.C. offices in the conservative farm region west of Johannesburg. Then last week they detonated powerful car bombs in downtown Johannesburg, in neighboring Germiston and at the international airport, killing a total of 21 people and injuring more than 150. By the end of the week the police had rounded up 34 suspects, all members of the neo-Nazi Afrikaner Resistance Movement...
...purge the officers and covert units inside the white-led national police force who have directed assassinations against A.N.C. members and supporters and have supplied Inkatha fighters with weapons. "You've got to find the criminals," Mbeki says. "The threat to democracy does not end with the effort to disrupt the elections. Some of them will take up guns and place bombs." At least one police officer and one reservist were among the 33 whites arrested last week as suspects in terrorist bombings...