Word: distressful
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...search of the familiar reassurance of his mother's face. She calls his name and makes soothing noises, but Daniel senses something unusual is happening. He sucks his fingers for comfort, but, finding no solace, his mouth crumples, his body stiffens, and he lets rip an almighty shriek of distress. Mom picks him up, reassures him, and two minutes later, a chortling and alert Daniel returns to the darkened booth behind the screen and submits himself to Babylab, a unit set up in 2005 at the University of Manchester in northwest England to investigate how babies think...
Watching infants piece life together, seeing their senses, emotions and motor skills take shape, is a source of mystery and endless fascination--at least to parents and developmental psychologists. We can decode their signals of distress or read a million messages into their first smile. But how much do we really know about what's going on behind those wide, innocent eyes? How much of their understanding of and response to the world comes preloaded at birth? How much is built from scratch by experience? Such are the questions being explored at Babylab. Though the facility is just 18 months...
...safety. "Compliance must not just be in terms of their fleets but also in terms of human resources, runways and landing systems," says Bambang Susantono, chairman of the Indonesian Transportation Society. "We need to ask why the radar in Makassar's airport was not able to pick up any distress signals and where the problem...
...video’s focus is a car headlight that shines through the woods encountering people in distress, but the search seems more like a deer hunt than a rescue. “How to Save a Life” suggests that the video will provide a tutorial in rescues; in reality, the title is blatantly misleading because no one is saved. In fact, people are dying all over the place. The lead singer, rather than doing any life-saving, just sits at his piano lamenting his inactivity. “How to Lose a Life” would...
Then, as Kessler, who underwent surgery over the summer to repair a torn knee ligament, met with the press, still wearing her heavy knee brace, several more members of the Harvard women’s hockey team filed by with evidence of physical distress. Sophomore defender Nora Sluzas had a large bag of ice taped to her knee. Freshman winger Randi Griffin held some frozen H‘O to her hip region...