Word: distressingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...relationships children have already established with their family," observes Linda Jones, who has taught nursery and elementary school in New York City for 23 years, "they'll try to re-create with their peers." Kids are drawn to children who are "helpful, kind, sharing, giving, cooperative and responsive to distress," says Marano. Ruthellen Josselson, co-author of Best Friends, an in-depth examination of girls' and women's friendships, advises, "If parents themselves have friends in a visible way so that it seems like a normal, important part of life to their children, that's a positive influence." Josselson adds...
...woman's distress points up the danger of taking herbs without considering the side effects or gauging other risks. Yet many physicians have received little training in nutrition or herbal medicine. In Los Angeles, neuropsychiatrist Dr. Ronald Lawrence runs the Council on Natural Nutrition and teaches at UCLA, where he is deluged by questions from doctors seeking information about herbs. "I can't keep up with the phone calls," he says...
...pleasant to watch the Republicans in deep distress, but we can't be smug [about the elections]," he said...
...schoolyard killings in Jonesboro, Ark., and the crash of Swiss Air Flight 111. In this week's American Scene, she weighs in on a brighter topic: the culture clash in a small city outside Los Angeles, where certain residents paint their homes in vivid yellows and pinks, to the distress of some of their neighbors. While she appreciated the change of topic, the trip wasn't so lighthearted as she anticipated. "I didn't know colors could provoke such strong emotions," she says. Labi, who is moving into a new apartment next month, allows that the story inspired...
...comments were driven less by his knowledge of political regimes, and more by his memories of the Newark he grew up with. As an old man, he could remember the days when Broad Street bustled with the best shopping in New Jersey. He blamed the city's current distress-sidewalks sparkling with broken glass and grand old buildings in shambles-on the present-day political leaders, rather than unfortunate legacies from the past. He showed me that not all of Newark's past should be buried, that some should be reclaimed and restored...