Word: distressingly
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...then 48, likens to a pulled muscle - worsened throughout the day, leaving her puzzled and fearful. By nightfall she was finding it difficult to breathe. Early the next morning, she was in the emergency ward of her local hospital surrounded by staff trying to establish the cause of her distress. After they had given Gibson oxygen and tested for a heart attack, one of them asked her, "Have you recently been on a long-haul flight...
Babies do in fact communicate their needs, but parents are often too close or too tired to figure out what they're saying. Hogg's advice is to back off a bit, watch and listen. She believes that a lot of distress is caused by too much stimulation--parents who believe a baby needs to be "tired out" in a noisy musical swing right before bed, for instance. Parents who can establish an environment with predictable routines, such as a soothing bedtime ritual, are likely to have calm babies...
...Pudding actor dressed in a puffy, fluorescent green dragon suit raced onto the stage and attacked Pomey--who played the damsel in distress...
...many must fend for themselves, struggling to survive. The trauma of losing parents is compounded by the burden of becoming a breadwinner. Most orphans sink into penury, drop out of school, suffer malnutrition, ostracism, psychic distress. Their makeshift households scramble to live on pitiful handouts--from overstretched relatives, a kind neighbor, a state grant--or they beg and steal in the streets. The orphans' present desperation forecloses a brighter future. "They hardly ever succeed in having a life," says Siphelile Kaseke, 22, a counselor at an AIDS orphans' camp near Bulawayo. Without education, girls fall into prostitution, and older boys...
...help them," insists Nelsen's daughter Mary, 26. "Let them manage on their own because it helps them build character. And only then will the lesson stick!" Once a shopaholic, Mary ran up so much credit-card debt that she could not meet the payments. Moved by her distress, her mother paid the bill, hoping Mary had learned her lesson. Instead she did the same thing again. The second time, Mary, soon to graduate from university, paid the debt herself and learned very nicely how to manage money in the process...