Word: homesickness
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...Norse never secured a foothold in the New World. Within a decade or so after Leif's landing at L'Anse aux Meadows, they were gone. Wallace, for one, believes that there were simply too few people to keep the camp going and that those stationed there got homesick: "You had a very small community that could barely sustain itself. Recent research has shown it had only 500 people, and we know you need that many at a minimum to start a colony in an uninhabited area. They had barely got started in Greenland when they decided...
...accident of history that the first Earth Day, in April 1970, came so soon after color photographs of the whole earth from space were made by homesick astronauts on the Apollo 8 mission to the moon in December...
...down completely. "If your candidate's principal perception problem is that he lacks gravitas," complained a Bush donor, "why be seen playing with children?" It was less a campaign than a parade, and one that he didn't always seem to be enjoying much. Aides whispered that he was homesick. He hadn't engaged with the voters, hadn't settled into the lumpy sofas in their living rooms with a cup of watery coffee or stood in their meeting halls patiently listening to their concerns and answering their questions. Emily Mead, who worked in the Bush White House before returning...
...pros and cons," Sarah said. "I didn't let [her being here] decide for me, but it was definitely a major benefit. And now that I'm here, it's more of a benefit than I thought it would be--just having family close by. I haven't gotten homesick...
Brandon Hart, a homesick freshman at Iowa State, has started e-mailing back and forth with his tech-novice mother, who says, "Brandon's being at college has left a huge hole in our lives." She couldn't bear to look at his empty bedroom, so she rearranged it and put the computer there. She sends old-fashioned "care packages," with baked goodies, novelty toys and notes from home. "The other guys get jealous when I bring another package in," Brandon said. "It's funny how exciting the mail gets when you get to college." See our Website at time.com...