Word: mentalism
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...World Health Organization's findings: an estimated 151,000 Iraqis died from violence between March 2003 and June 2006. Only 57% of Iraqi women said they had heard of AIDS. About 21% of Iraqi women said they experience physical domestic violence. And about 36% of respondents received a mental-health score indicating "significant psychological distress...
...teams battle [for] the first time in a while.” KILLER LAPSES This weekend showed the Crimson just how quickly a game can change when a team loses focus for a few minutes or falls victim to bad luck. Often, if the defense fails to recover its mental edge after letting in a goal, it can snowball into a scoring streak for the opposition. During Harvard’s haphazard start against Quinnipiac, the Bobcats struck twice within 53 seconds in the middle of the first period after Ben Nelson followed a Brian Leitch goal by stuffing...
Delaney-Smith seemed to believe that the necessary adjustments were mental as much as physical...
...realized that we weren’t playing our kind of game in the first half, that we were letting them take control,” said Rollins. “We didn’t get too down on ourselves. It was all confidence. It was a mental game from there.” The team has a three-week layoff before traveling to Dartmouth on Jan. 26 to try to avenge Saturday’s loss. “We’re not going to let them take the championship away from us so easily...
...tumble world of international cricket, Australia has long been known as one of the toughest teams. Though they have tried to lose their bully boy tags over the past few years, Australian players still regularly "sledge" - or verbally niggle - their opponents. One former Australian captain called the practice "mental disintegration" and argued that it should be seen as an important part of the game. The Indian team - and players from other subcontinental teams such as Pakistan - complain that it's a bit rich for Australia to start moaning about on-field banter now. Indeed, India has lodged a counter complaint...