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...recovered, but it took months and extensive surgery at Johns Hopkins ) Hospital in Baltimore. Gore moved into his son's hospital room for those first few weeks and tried to maintain his Senate duties from the child's bedside. "It was a terrible jolt for Al, a defining moment," says a longtime friend. "Al hasn't been the same since...
...anything positive can be said about the strongest earthquake to hit California in 40 years, it's that it chose a relatively good place and time to strike. Sunday's powerful early-morning jolt -- 7.4 on the Richter scale in contrast to 7.1 for the 1989 San Francisco Bay area quake -- shook people from their beds and houses from their foundations and was felt as far away as Colorado and Washington. But it was centered in the sparsely populated Mojave Desert, some 100 miles east of Los Angeles. A second quake, with a Richter rating of 6.5, struck an even...
...Washington Irving's classic folktale, Rip Van Winkle awakes from a 20-year nap to find his youth behind him, the world radically changed and his assumptions hopelessly outmoded. Schizophrenics roused to reality by clozapine endure much the same jolt. Re-entry is not merely a question of catching up with the arrival of rap music and the end of the cold war. It often means coming to terms with lost dreams: the chance to buy a house, build a career or perhaps start a family. On top of this, patients emerging from schizophrenia must acquire the skills needed...
Johnston's selection was a jolt for the senior, who did not expect to be chosen on the first day of the three-day draft...
Since politicians fear retirement above everything else, the council's electoral inquiry was received as a jolt of reality therapy -- and when the frightened asked, "What do we do now?" the D.L.C. was ready with a litany of remedies. Proceeding from the assumption that the Democrats' "fundamental failure is intellectual" (a view that faults the message rather than the messengers), the Progressive Policy Institute, under the direction of Will Marshall, has published a series of provocative papers that Clinton, for one, has adopted almost wholesale...