Word: distinguisher
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...please, the first voice says, trying to be reasonable: The kids victimized by dodge ball must be distinguished from those poor children ducking bullets in the projects. Those growing up with daily drugs and gunfire get skewed enough. But the supposedly luckier kids, spared a demanding relationship with reality, are also liable to wind up morally undeveloped. It's the lack of reality that's their problem - their heads teeming with the violent illusions they pick up from movies and television, to the point that they cannot tell hallucinations from real blood, real death. They need rites of passage. Otherwise...
...artillery. Masked ethnic Macedonian civilians, outraged at the rebel ambush, rampaged through Albanian communities smashing shop windows and beating residents - the first time civilians took to the streets since violence first erupted a month ago. The rebels say they are fighting for Albanian rights but have yet to distinguish their claims from those of existing Albanian parties already in government. In Washington, George W. Bush met Macedonian President Boris Trajkovski and promised to "support the necessary steps Macedonia is taking...
Smith said he will be able to "distinguish the difference between emotionally-induced facts and empirically-supported ones...
...knowledge that you will forgive them for whatever they break or spill or forget, if they learn to share because you are sharing, if they don't have to fight for your attention, those skills may serve them better in the adventure that is kindergarten than being able to distinguish the octagon from the hexagon or fuchsia from lilac. The best news about raising a super child is that the secret to doing it is not to try too hard...
...violent entertainment may affect children's brains. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging to monitor brain activity of eight kids ages eight to 13, researchers found that watching violent images activated a part of the brain that stores memories of traumatic events. The study implies that the brain may not distinguish between fictional and actual violence...