Word: ga
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...teach patients to relieve tension, has proved helpful for a number of ailments, including one of the most perplexing problems in medicine: phantom limb pain, the often agonizing sensations that amputees "feel" in missing limbs. Psychophysiologist Richard Sherman, of Dwight David Eisenhower Army Medical Center in Fort Gordon, Ga., has found that the pain, which afflicts about 80% of amputees at one time or another, is sometimes due to muscle spasms in the stump. When Sherman teaches patients to relax the affected muscles through biofeedback training, the sensations in the phantom limb usually disappear...
...being withheld by police). He offered her $25 an hour to pose for photographs. When she turned him down, he punched her in the stomach, bound her with a clothesline and locked her in the trunk of his car. Wilder allegedly drove her to a motel in Bainbridge, Ga., where he raped her and tortured her with electric shocks, at one point attempting to seal shut her eyes with glue. She escaped into a bathroom, locking herself in and screaming so loudly that she attracted rescuers and caused Wilder to flee...
Allina believes it is "naive" to think that fear of punishment will persuade zealots to report cases of sick children who are denied medical care. Certainly that was the case last September when C.D. Long and his wife Judy of Summerville, Ga., were charged with involuntary manslaughter in the death of their 16-year-old foster son. The boy died of a ruptured appendix after days of agony; during that period the parents, both members of the Union Assembly, had not sought medical help. But neighbors of the Longs in the close-knit northwestern Georgia community were reluctant to testify...
...McDonough, Ga., nine-year-old Sean Green pierced his gums with an inch-long sewing needle buried in one of the Girl Scouts' Caramel Delights. A Chatham, Va., girl punctured her lip when she bit into a cookie containing a pin. At least 17 states, ranging from Maine to California, filed more than 80 reports of cookies contaminated with pins, needles and other metal objects. The FBI quickly joined the Food and Drug Administration in a nationwide investigation of the cookie tampering...
...novel's title is the name of a shapeless pendant of marsh and sand that meets the Atlantic about midway between Charleston, S.C., and Savannah, Ga. Simons, pronounced Simmons ("I'm a rare one-m Simons"), lives in this area among the palmettos, scrub oaks, fiddler crabs, and slave descendants who speak Gullah and keep the faith at Marvin's R.O. Sweet Shop and Baby Grand. There, Simons says, "I am a celebrity because I'm white, not even teen-age yet, and possess the partial aura of the Duchess...