Word: heals
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...starts to break down at puberty so that bone can completely ossify in preparation for adulthood. Without that protective band, the plate is especially susceptible to being unnaturally compressed or even pulled apart. Parents are often shocked to discover that overuse injuries may require six months or more to heal properly...
...accident. Everyone knew about what had happened and I felt very exposed. I didn't have the private time to think about the things I needed to think about, and feel things I needed to feel. Sometimes I wish it were more private because I probably would heal faster - or at last differently...
...Defense Department statistics, 2,591 soldiers have died in Iraq. That's a death toll just slightly less than the number of people who died at the World Trade Center. The military casualties, both those who died and the thousands more who returned with wounds that will never heal, are heartbreaking. But America at large has not been touched by Iraq because the sacrifice is nothing like what people on the home front endured in World War II: the rationing and deprivations, the ache in millions of families when their children went off to war. Want real war movies? Impose...
...breed of terror for India. The blasts were synchronized and used a high-quality explosive. This was the work of a well-financed terror group that needed no suicide bombers. As a nation, India must now move on from merely praising its phenomenal ability to seemingly brush off and heal from its many natural and man-made disasters—it must develop and hone its intelligence network to prevent these attacks, and not allow terrorism to deter the peace process in Kashmir. In the first few days following the Bombay blasts, official statements from New Delhi treated the atrocity...
...advent of democracy in 1978, ETA's support has steadily dwindled to the point where today it is almost unanimously rejected by Basque society. Indeed, despite Basques' desire for self-rule- some still seek independence from Spain- tolerance for political violence has disappeared. It was the desire to heal the traumas of 40 years of low-intensity civil conflict that saw the brief 1998 cease-fire called by ETA greeted with so much hope, but it was soon broken in a new wave of killing that appeared to return the conflict to square...